simples

I made this 30x30cm image in 1998, as part of a visual concepts alphabet exercise on my 2nd year in university. The word for S was "simples".

a few more images of one of my favourite school assignments ever after the jump.

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I have to say there is something special about this place.
Merry Christmas.

“There are times when we are perhaps visited by a mild nostalgia for the harmless and leisured times before the advent of advertising. yet if we considered how the world would look without advertising, we should certainly have to admit that it would lose much of its form and color. that we should no longer see the faces turned towards the bright displays, nor the eyes that sparkle in the light of illuminated advertisements. The walls would be monotonous, the streets emptier and duller; there might be unemployment, there might be even misery. And above all we should not see our own progress, for advertisement is nothing if not a manifestation of progress.”

Carlo Dinelli, “Advertising Art in Italy”, Graphis, #33, 1950

I chose 12 Proprietary Eponyms out of all these suggestions that arrived from all over the world to my inbox: Kodak, Xerox, Bic, Aspirin, Q-Tip, Styrofoam, Windex, Ketchup, Post it, Nescafe, Nesquik, Spax, Google, Rolodex, Filofax, Tupperware, Walkman, Phillips Screw, Lego, Pampers, Black & Decker, Vespa, Fridge (Frigidaire), Keds, Band-Aids, Cellophane, BMX Granola, Zipper, Yo-Yo, Nicorette, Nutella, Tampaz, Sharpie, X-Acto, La-Z-Boy, Velcro, Play-Doh, Zambuk, Lip Ice, BluTack, Chapstick, Skype, FedEx, Kraft Dinner, Tippex, Disprin, Dettol, Chupa Chups, Hoover, Jeep, Rollerblade, Gillete, Kispo, Formica, Cool Whip, TiVo, Linoleum, Guiness, Coke, Plexiglas, ZipLock, Saran Wrap, iPod, Frisbee, UHU, Tixo, Obi, Goiserer, Tesa, Patez, Tempo, Philadelphia, Zippo, Stanley, Scottex, Frigo, Sopalin, Vaseline, Chiclet, Labello, Cimbalino, Zewa, Edding, Nivea, Speedo, Slinky, Gladwrap, Sunlight, Prestik, Kreepy Krauly, Radenska, Superga, Spa, Stanley Knife.

Here is the result.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/freduarte/sets/72157608708661776/

Thank you so much to everyone who sent their suggestions.

photo: Amelia Black

Our visit to Philip Johnson’s Glass House was great, but it was a very cold Connecticut Fall day and I was seriously underdressed…