PAUL ARINDAM

MA GCD 2026

Author: Paul Arindam Paul

  • Mini Reader

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    Mini Reader: Collection of significant texts The mini reader contains texts that were important influence in shaping my work and the research report written alongside it. I am uploading a pdf document of the same below for anyone to view.

  • Universal Symbols

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    Universal Symbols Type Design 2 Verify you are human: The images below show the symbol-letters put to the test.

  • Universal Symbols

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    Universal Symbols Type Design 1 Typography using symbols In projections 2, I started off by looking at examples of secretive communication in history and also objects or material I could use to design type that originate from the idea of protest in history or are ‘human’ in nature. Cornrows are speculated to have been used…

  • More Body Copy

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    More Body Copy Compositions Using BodyCopy After the creation of hand gestures as letterforms, I created compositions using these letterforms and wrote text messages. I also went ahead and created vectors out of the images to get them to look closer to letterforms in black and white.

  • Pareidolia and type

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    Pareidolia and type Type design using fingers and hands This entry shows type design using hands and fingers. I used the phenomenon of pareidolia to introduce friction into readability. Pareidolia is the phenomenon of finding familiar shapes and faces in objects. The images show how I created the letters and some examples of the same…

  • Distortion

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    Distortion Studio Work 1 These explorations created initially at the start of the 3rd Unit started with ideas of distorting type, as a continuation of explorations done previously in Unit 2. I started by ideating about various ways one could distort visual forms, through physical tools as well as using digital softwares. The examples that…

  • Bibliography 2

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    Bibliography 2 Annotated Bibliography The annotated references below are in no particular order.

  • Bibliography 1

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    Bibliography 1 Annotated Bibliography This post lists below some of the major references:

  • Experiments with typography 2

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    Experiments with typography 2 I carried out more experiments on similar lines as the previous experiments. Most of these are included in my Unit 2 slides. I moved from single letters to words and paragraphs. For these experiments, I used the tools present inside Adobe Illustrator to generate different outputs, which attempt to create confusion…

  • Experiments with typography 1

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    Experiments with typography 1 At the start of year 2, my inquiry became specific to designing language to resist text based surveillance by OCRs aided by AI. In my initial explorations, I tried to create letterforms, on which I introduced confusion through different methods. Few of the ways were by overlapping similar or different letterforms…