From The Font Feed: Take a few months, combine a few hundred spare pegboard letters, a digital camera and one of Tandem’s most ingenious directors. The result is Chris Gavin’s miniature epic entitled TXT Island. Chris’ experimental film pushes pegboard signage to its limits. Painstakingly hand-crafted, Chris used sackfuls of plastic letters to create textual landscapes that would shame any fast-food outlet. The film follows the endeavours of a squad of letters, as they delve deep into the jungle of a mysterious island. What is their mission? And will they succeed?
Part motion graphics, part ASCII art, TXT Island serves as social commentary, an unforgiving look at rampant commercialism through animated characters. The stop motion typography is very inventive, and takes the medium of pegboard typography to whole new levels and into uncharted territory. For example human body movement is simulated by successions of I, Y, F, X, and V in varying order. Using different colours and sizes of pegboard letters Chris Gavin manages to create intricate and detailed worlds full of activity.
This could be the best 3m 30sec you will spend all day:
