The Sound of Type

STEREOTYPED: Sound + Typography
3 –26 September 2010, Object Gallery, Sydney

The Type People and the Music People
Nils Crompton & Brooke Trezise | Stephen Banham & David Chesworth | Amanda Cole & Ellen Lupton | James Cecil & Tin&Ed | Jay Ryves & Nathan McLay | Gemma O’Brien & Jared Underwood

The What
Stereotyped: sound + typography is an exhibition that will look at how type + sound create meaning in our everyday lives as well as challenge the definition of the designer in the 21st Century. This exhibition will be presented in the Project Space at Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney.

Both sound design, the manipulation of audio elements to achieve a desired effect and typography, the art and technique of arranging type, type design , and modifying type glyphs were once highly professional fields of specialization. Now, both mediums are used by a multiplicity of disciplines to create meaning in a diversity of forms. Moreover with the evolution of digital technologies has come a plethora of amateur ‘designers’ of both sound and typography – anyone with a computer can create sound and type at home. Stereotyped will cross multiple disciplines, from sound designers/composers/musicians to typographers/illustrators/graphic designers/animators/filmmakers/writers, to challenge commonly held beliefs about each discipline and create an unforgettable sensory experience.

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