Dylan Greif Designer

Investigating Calvino's 'Quickness'

RISD, Typography Studio, 2010

– 10”x10” posters, an investigation on legibility, simultaneity, infinity and Italo Calvino's concept of 'Quickness' from his 'Six Memos for the Next Millennium'. The first in the series is inspired by MIT researcher Aude Oliva's Einstein/Monroe image illusion, which explores how high spacial frequences (sharp lines) and low spacial frequences (blurry lines) become legible as a function of distance and time. Below, the essential letters in the word 'Quickness' can be read sequentially as one approaches the poster from a distance.