A Hair Story Personal Project:
Video & Lettering
A Hair Story was part of Design Arts Utah 2014, juried by Ellen Lupton, Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City. Lupton said about the project: “The designer explores the ‘ick factor’ by creating lettering and animation out of body hair. The viewer is challenged to come to terms with notions of masculine and feminine norms as well as our notions of beauty, ugliness, and racial identity. Some of Moya’s hairy letterforms are quite beautiful!”
ROLES
Lettering
Filming/Video Editing
Graphic Design
A Hairy
Process
For this project I used my own body hair, storyboarded the sequence, sketched, practiced, and sometimes improvised when some letterforms would not cooperate. This project also included two 18”x24” posters.
