How to explore the language offered by different strokes?

Quarantine Brushes: a workshop with Scarabottolo

Stefano Lattuada

Student

Stefano Lattuada

Academic staff

Mauro Vincenzo Bubbico Gianluca Camillini Elisabetta Rattalino

Course

Things that talk

Program

BA Major Design

Semester

2020/21 SS

During the workshop held by the Italian illustrator Guido Scarabottolo, participants explored the language offered by different strokes and their individual expressivity. In this exercise we were encouraged to fabricate different “brushes”, no matter what the material was: some from natual fibers, other from waste materials. The aim was to find their own peculiar stroke. Randomness was also an important element to work with.

I collected leaves, different sticks and straw from my garden to create these brushes. Black acrylic was used to create the strokes.

All the brushes are posted on the Instagram page @thingsthat_talk

A project made in the course

Things that talk

The course aims to provide tools and method for the graphic design of the image for publishing through field research and the creation of prototypes. Design is mainly intended as narrative, as the ability to reconstruct a logical narrative structure starting from a reasoned combination of acquired elements. We are submerged by an immense quantity of images that are increasingly strident, disharmonious, screamed, multiform and disrespectful; they multiply daily, impose themselves everywhere and take possession of our lives, condition our choices. When there is too much to see, we end up seeing nothing and paradoxically to see better we need to close our eyes.

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