What this site holds is the result of a curious survey on how a message is interpreted when presented differently, focusing on stylizing textual-based messaging (which limits certain aspects of typography). Students at the University of the Arts volunteered to participate in the project, where they were given a phrase and asked to manipulate it to best reflect the manner in which they thought it should be said. Their responses are presented in the galleries on this site.
Explore the galleries by selecting a message from the MESSAGES bar on the right side. The results are displayed two at a time to encourage the viewer to compare and contrast the two different iterations. Some may possess similarities in how they were executed, others may convey entirely different meaning.
There is great strength in words, and with the technology of instant and text messaging it is curious whether people take for granted how powerful their words are. This project was a step in asking the question:
In a world where social interaction is an option rather than a necessity, are the meanings behind our messages still getting across to those we want to reach?
Inspired by last words, this projects shows how one message can be interpreted differently based on how it is presented through text. Notice how the aspects of speech translate differently through their manipulations.
