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Space for celebrating Street Sign Painting

Daniel Lara — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:04:52 +0000

My final proposal to celebrate Street Sign Painting is to build temporary galleries that wrap around selected paintings. This would function as a community enhancer, since it would encourage people from outside of the community to visit and notice the small businesses around the painting. If an art museum would get involved it could realize the idea of the museum going to the streets. This would trigger a sense of pride in the community and would break the static nature of the museum.

3D Symbol Revisited

Daniel Lara — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:05:03 +0000

This new version of the 3D symbol attempts to make the Street Sign Painting palpable.

3D Symbol Burned

Daniel Lara — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:37:21 +0000

My last attempt produced a “too clean” symbol that did not represent Street Sign painting as I wanted. I soaked the paper model and then burned it. I wanted to embed some kind of randomness. After this process, I started analyzing what is was that I like about the street paintings.

3D symbol

Daniel Lara — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:25:21 +0000

This is my first attempt to create a 3D symbol that would capture the Street Sign Paintings.

Mood Wall

Daniel Lara — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:02:25 +0000

I chose to celebrate the vernacular street signs on the street. The first step in this project was to make a Mood Wall: