Tori Watson
This alphabet is made of you. Every structure in your body is shaped by proteins: tiny, three-dimensional machines that perform important roles all throughout your body. Through AlphaFold, an open-source database that has visualized over 200 million of these structures, we can finally visualize the complex geometry that makes us who we are. Splice treats these proteins as found objects. Each letter in this typeface is a different protein, rotated just-so to reveal a hidden glyph. The human body has been translated into language. What are you going to say?Some images may be cropped. Click on an image to see the full image without cropping.
Tori Watson
splice-type.com This alphabet is made of you. Every structure in your body is shaped by proteins: tiny, three-dimensional machines that perform important roles all throughout your body. Through AlphaFold, an open-source database that has visualized over 200 million of these structures, we can finally visualize the complex geometry that makes us who we are. Splice treats these proteins as found objects. Each letter in this typeface is a different protein, rotated just-so to reveal a hidden glyph. The human body has been translated into language. What are you going to say?
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Splice – regular
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Designed an identity system for Subtext: branding, promotional posters, a screenprinted shirt, outdoor signage, digital promotion, and a large-scale balloon sculpture. The concept asks viewers to read between the lines. I developed a halftone system in Vectoraster where distortions and obstructions invite closer inspection, and grounded the color palette in the act of highlighting itself: yellow for analog reading, blue for digital.
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Subtext exhibition
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Transplanted: Los Angeles looks at the native plants and graffiti that cover the city. Both take root where they can. Both define the visual culture. What does it mean to belong in a place you aren’t from?
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Abyssal Fest is an experimental electronic music festival that uses thalassophobia as protest. Musicians and marine scientists collaborate to call for more ocean exploration and environmental protection. The visual language pulls from 1) the hypnotic, violent beauty of bioluminescent lures of ocean creatures and 2) deep-sea spectrograms, visual records of a sea that screams. These sounds may not survive the century.
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Designed the album identity for Gabberpop by Joost Klein, combining typography and Windows 95–inspired UI into a maximalist visual language. Work included CD case, disc, lyric booklet, billboard, truck wrap, merchandise, and animated social ads.
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Exquisite corpse self-portrait bookTori Watson
This alphabet is made of you. Every structure in your body is shaped by proteins: tiny, three-dimensional machines that perform important roles all throughout your body. Through AlphaFold, an open-source database that has visualized over 200 million of these structures, we can finally visualize the complex geometry that makes us who we are. Splice treats these proteins as found objects. Each letter in this typeface is a different protein, rotated just-so to reveal a hidden glyph. The human body has been translated into language. What are you going to say? splice-type.com
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https://unwrappingai.com/ Demand transparency for AI’s hidden costs.
Tori Watson
typography as a site of bodily exchange. Helvetica cast in wax + sugar. queer type is made through queer acts…through queer bodies that leave marks behind.
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