Time is Waiting.
Times New Roman Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931, created by Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype. It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically antiquated. The font was supervised by Morison and drawn by Victor Lardent, an artist from the advertising department of The Times. Morison used an older font named Plantin as the basis for his design, but made revisions for legibility and economy of space. Morison’s revision became known as Times New Roman and made its debut in the 3 October 1932 issue of The Times newspaper. After one year, the design was released for commercial sale. The Times stayed with Times New Roman for 40 years, but new production techniques and the format change from broadsheet to tabloid in 2004 have caused the newspaper to switch font five times since 1972. However, all the new fonts have been variants of the original New Roman font.
Victor Lardent (1905 – 1968)
Stanley Morison (1889-1967)
Victor Lardent was a British advertising designer and draftsman at The Times, London. He created the font Times New Roman under the direction of Stanley Morison in 1932.
Stanley Morison was a British typographer, designer and historian of printing. He was one of the most influential type-designers of the 20th century, having commissioned the Times New Roman typeface and several historical revivals for the Monotype Corporation.
CONCEPT
When I was questioned about definition of time, I thought that time is waiting. Although the object of waiting can be totally different from individual to individual, all is always waiting for something. For example, time is waiting for success to one, is to others waiting for death. Now, in my case, time is waiting for finishing of this writing. Like this, the object of waiting is also very changeable at the moment.
INSPIRATION I inspired from “The Last Leaf” by O Henry. Johnsy, who is main character, got pneumonia and laid hopelessly sick. She believed that the fall of the last leaf would bring her the death and her deliverance from the suffering. In other words, in her view, time is waiting for her death as the fall of the las leaf. On the other hand, in Sue’s view, time is waiting for ability about Johnsy’s strong will for alive. In more general terms, the fall of leaves can have meaning of waiting for winter or flow of time. In other words, over time to wait.
PROCESS
material: White paper size: 5 x 7 x 3 inches Cut four characters as ‘T’, ‘I’, ‘M’ and ‘E’ after printing on white paper and make the three-dimentional structures for the impression of space and shadow when I take photos. Make a lot of three-dimentional leaves and put those on the characters.
“After the beating rain and fierce gusts of wind that had endured through the livelong night, there yet stood out against the brick wall one ivy leaf.” — O Henry, The Last Leaf