The tandem of Liam + Jord designers, working on a series of animations for the May Font: Kinetic Typography project, draws inspiration from the common European experience, paying tribute to the departed and also emphasizing the pacifist spirit of their work. The team comments on its first episode:
“This is a dedication to the fallen. Creating this image, we turned not only to the font “May”, but also to the metaphor of the halls of Valhalla, to convey the endless aspiration of those who sacrificed everything for the rest, and our eternal gratitude. Leaving in the halls of military glory, they gain eternal life. And we will remember their feat, no matter how much time has passed. ”
Kinetic typography, or text animation, counts down from the founder of cinema, Georges Milles, and then graphic designer Sol Bass with his screensavers for films by Hitchcock and other directors. With the development of digital technology, kinetic typography has reached a fundamentally new level and is striving to become an independent direction in art. Project # Pages of Victory is consistently looking for new ways to talk about the tragedy that our country went through 75 years ago.
The project itself was opened in the spring of 2019 with the font “May”, created on the basis of real inscriptions that Soviet soldiers left on the walls of the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945. The font is unique in its apparent handwriting, as well as its variability: each letter has several alternative forms, between which you can switch when typing, and the letters themselves are arranged in lines a little unevenly, as if written on the wall. The font “May” can be downloaded from the #Pobedy Victory website.
Earlier, #Pobeda Victory presented other works created with the help of modern technologies: VR-dedication to the victims of the Holocaust “Auschwitz Lessons” and drawings by children of besieged Leningrad. Also began the publication of a series of posters “Four lines about the war”, in which the famous schedule of Peter Banks explores the memories of the Great Patriotic War in the military and post-war art, including songs and poetry. The essay for the first posters was written by director, writer and journalist Alexei Simonov - the son of the famous wartime poet Konstantin Simonov.
Join the # Victory Pages on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, VKontakte and follow the hourly chronicle of the last months of the war on Twitter. You can also write a letter to veterans in the project #Post-Victory.