Erika Goering

Folly Theater: Grace Kelly Quintet

A jazz-inspired study of rhetorical tropes. Designed for the Folly Theater in Kansas City.

Folly Theater: Grace Kelly Quintet Folly Theater: Grace Kelly Quintet

Inspi-Rational: Lisa Strausfeld Lecture Poster

For a theoretical lecture featuring the amazing Lisa Strausfeld.

Inspi-Rational: Lisa Strausfeld Lecture Poster Inspi-Rational: Lisa Strausfeld Lecture Poster

Stop

Summer 2008 Installation at the former Dolphin Gallery in Kansas City, MO. This project expressed the frustration with today’s society and begs everyone to stop doing what isn’t working and to reflect upon what needs to change.  

Stop Stop

Reach Out & Read Poster: Knowledge is Nourishment

Inspiring parents to read to their children at an early age.Reading to a child is arguably as important as feeding them healthy meals. It is as essential to develop a healthy mind as it is to develop a healthy body. If parents take every opportunity to read to them, statistically their children will have higher »

Reach Out & Read Poster: Knowledge is Nourishment Reach Out & Read Poster: Knowledge is Nourishment

Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap Rebranding

Mode of appeal study. Converting ethos to pathos using transparency and type.

Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap Rebranding Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap Rebranding

Tender Buttons

Typographical anthology of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. Based on syllabic rhythm and sound. Gertrude Stein’s poetry focuses on rhythm and sound rather than literal linguistic meaning. I used this as my main concept. All of my work in this series uses syllabic rhythm to convey a hierarchy and a conversational structure.

Tender Buttons Tender Buttons

Koenig Book

Blurb book showing orthogonal qualities of Pierre Koenig’s work.  

Koenig Book Koenig Book

Union Station Centennial Celebration

A narrative within a narrative. Interactive tabletop timeline showing Union Station’s 100-year history.  

Union Station Centennial Celebration Union Station Centennial Celebration

Taxonomy and Such

Just that, and nothing more.

Taxonomy and Such

My partner and I are organizing our haiku marks by man-made or natural tools, the objects that were used to make the marks, the method in which the tool was used (rolled, stamped, etc.), and then the similarity of the shape and appearance of the marks themselves.

Examples:

Natural: Ginkgo leaf: rolled into a tube: stamped: page of stamped ginkgo leaves organized by similarity

Man-made: bandana: wrinkled: stamped: page of stamped bandana marks

We are thinking about keeping the book small and using either wire-o binding or saddle stitch. (It will depend on how thick our book ends up being. If it’s thicker, we’ll go for the wire-o.)

We are also talking about possibly using a square format for our book to emphasize the meditative qualities of our haiku.

Posted on Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 at 4:52 pm for KCAI, VisCom1.

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2 Responses to “Taxonomy and Such”

  1. Jamie says:
    November 20, 2010 at 5:31 pm

    Is your haiku really all that meditative? Obstacles. Obscuring. Questioning whether you can make it. Let those key words inform your classification system.

    Please share my comments with your partner.

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  2. erikagoering says:
    November 22, 2010 at 9:32 am

    Maybe meditative isn’t the right word. Maybe it’s more contemplative.
    In either case, I was referring to the final line of the haiku, “Will I make it there?” where the narrator is wondering about an uncertain future. “There” could be a goal of any kind. Looking to an obscured sky for answers, asking no one in particular if oneself will make it to that lofty goal seems meditative/contemplative to me.

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