Jan Ly

2face is a series of visual explorations on the ways identity is abstracted, represented, and classified by data.

By using facial recognition imagery, digital identifiers, and tracked movements on a map, this video paints an image of a disembodied person through the eyes of data surveillance. The typography and motion graphics are tied together to illustrate the topic with a sense of rigidity and fluidity at the same time.

YEAR

2019

TYPE

Motion Graphics
Film
Book
Poster

RECOGNITION

RGD Bell Media Award for Typography - Digital (2020)

2face plays on a monitor screen placed against a red backdrop.
2face plays on a monitor screen placed against a red backdrop.

Initial Graphic Explorations

Metallic front and back covers with laser cut figures resembling a face on each cover.
Book flipthrough GIF showing the gradual layering of abstract dots and lines, forming a face.

Accordion book using reflective covers + layered transparencies.

Typographic poster reads: beyond self.
Typographic poster reads: someone else.

Large format posters. Typography made using a mixed analog + digital process.