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 a contemporary portrait of a disembodied person through the eyes of data surveillance. Through typography and motion graphics, I explore both the rigidity and fluidity of digital identity, illustrating the often conflicting experiences of the internet as simultaneously prescriptive and freeing.

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 Explorations

Much of the concepts from 2face came from previous work that I noticed explored similar questions. Translating them into motion offered an opportunity to weave them together narratively, creating a fuller picture of what it means to exist online, along with its potentialities and realities.

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.