Daniel Brown

My thesis project is a creative inquiry into the role of language in American culture and society. It explores the intersection between typography and social documentation. It seeks to examine typography as a visual medium for observing people, revealing knowledge, and telling stories. As a critical investigation, this work aims to rethink traditional rules in type to open public dialogues on work, money, and alienation. In a series of posters, I document my personal experience on the public train in Chicago. I highlight public conversations and different modes of expression. In doing so, my work considers the relationship between form and style by thinking about order, structure, and grid systems. My work is a social documentary on identity. It invites the reader to think about how language informs a person and moves, shifts, and changes location. As a writer and graphic designer, I believe design offers the ability to imagine new ways of reading the world and expressing culture. With my emerging practice, I am interested in carrying this project forward after graduation by diving into writing and publishing.