Our workshop with Jim Sutherland involved considering dualities, like the two sides of a ping-pong bat. We were asked to produce a typographically-focused outcome. I had been diving deeper into my interest in science fiction, both in concept and design practice, so chose science and fiction as my pair of words. I considered how fiction can inspire science, and how reality can sometimes amaze us more than fiction: my chosen duality was not quite opposites, but two concepts in conversation.
I developed an ambigram: a way of writing one word that, when reflected, reads as another. This meant that, as I put it on my ping-pong bat, each side read as a different word despite having the same shapes. I then collaged collected paper, photocopies from a book on science-fiction, and other found image to fill in these shapes, and used midnight blue paint to contrast.
