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The Baybayin City Series – Oakland
In an effort to stylize the Filipino script of Baybayin while expressing my American upbringing, I needed to focus on the form of the Baybayin characters and translate them to something I can identify with. It wasn't just enough to simply write an English word into Baybayin, because the esoteric form of the Baybayin characters simply isn't identifiable to a large mass audience. Taking from communication design aspects, the concept became apparent: to create an identifiable image using the Baybayin characters.
Combining calligraphy, graffiti handstyling, typography techniques and letter theory, I’ve been able to translate the Baybayin characters into English-like letter forms, while still retaining most of the distinguishing key elements of their Baybayin forms. Spelling out city names, the cities highlighted are home to a high population of Filipinos, and I felt that this would help represent Filipino Americans in two ways: the bold imagery of the uniquely Filipino script of Baybayin, and the pride of city-claiming, popular among American youths. This first series concentrates on a few California cities, but will eventually include more American cities as well as other countries aside from the Philippines.
Finally, I am pleased present to you all, the Baybayin City Series – California
The Bathala Project – [link]
BITERS FALL BACK OR GET YOUR TEETH CRACKED!
~cyph
In an effort to stylize the Filipino script of Baybayin while expressing my American upbringing, I needed to focus on the form of the Baybayin characters and translate them to something I can identify with. It wasn't just enough to simply write an English word into Baybayin, because the esoteric form of the Baybayin characters simply isn't identifiable to a large mass audience. Taking from communication design aspects, the concept became apparent: to create an identifiable image using the Baybayin characters.
Combining calligraphy, graffiti handstyling, typography techniques and letter theory, I’ve been able to translate the Baybayin characters into English-like letter forms, while still retaining most of the distinguishing key elements of their Baybayin forms. Spelling out city names, the cities highlighted are home to a high population of Filipinos, and I felt that this would help represent Filipino Americans in two ways: the bold imagery of the uniquely Filipino script of Baybayin, and the pride of city-claiming, popular among American youths. This first series concentrates on a few California cities, but will eventually include more American cities as well as other countries aside from the Philippines.
Finally, I am pleased present to you all, the Baybayin City Series – California
The Bathala Project – [link]
BITERS FALL BACK OR GET YOUR TEETH CRACKED!
~cyph
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