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Michael Natali

Michael Natali

New York, NY, US

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The Activated Context

This project is rooted in Downtown Los Angeles, a place that harbors an abundance of spaces that celebrate informal and unremarkable signage.  These artifacts exist independently of their original context and are in competition with the designed spaces in which we find them.

This thesis looks at an empty triangular parking lot in the Arts District  in which there is an opportunity to reclaim the space that would be occupied by similarly non-contextual two-dimensional artifacts.  By confronting the existing surface information found on this site, the immediate context can be activated to produce a spacialized interpretation of the desired graphic communication.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Arts District, Downtown, Los Angeles, California