Subject/Verb/Object: Work by Simon Johnston
December 4, 2008 | Levent OZLER
With the click of the mouse, there are literally hundreds of typefaces at our disposal.
The most adept designers find creative and unexpected relationships between both the meaning of the words on the page and the visual form of the type style.
Designers explore these relationships to communicate messages that are both immediate and subliminal in nature and can be found in all forms of digital and print media.
subject/ verb/ object is an investigation of the nature of visible language which forms the core of Simon Johnston's work.
As both artist and designer, he considers his work in these two fields to be separate parallel practices, each being informed and influenced by each other.
His art works predominantly explore the slippery nature of language and its operations, and play with issues of meaning and representation.
The exhibition includes a selection of his commissioned design work, in particular, publications for many leading artists and cultural institutions, as well as his personal art to illustrate the central role that typography and language play.
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