The dutch design group, MACHINE, came to UCLA D|MA and challenged the senior class to create material for multiple VJ shows. Each team of two students were given a word/emotion to represent and ours was anger. Instead of doing direct typographical work with the word anger, we decided to destroy, typographically, words that would be lost in a moment of anger.

Calm -- cast in plaster from a clay mold, the calm white block letters get shattered by the swift blow of a hammer

Reason -- cut from balsa wood and then set aflame, the word vanishes in smoke and charcoal

Ideally this would have been shot with a high speed camera, but as design students, we did the best with what we had. I would have loved to see the plaster mold shatter under 200fps or higher, (but 60 progressive wasn't terrible)

video documentation of the VJ collaboration

Vj, Machine from Camile Orillaneda on Vimeo.