Yesterday I received Frankie with the article of my faces! A pity that there is a mistake in the printing with one picture. I put the text of the interview below here, because it's not readable from the picture.
Tell us a little about yourself I am a graphic designer living in Amsterdam, Holland, with my boyfriend and our two rabbits. I love to be outdoors, especially on the Wadden Islands in the north of Holland. My favourite spot in Amsterdam is Artis Zoo.
What is the 365 Faces Project? Just a project for pleasure. For one year, I created a face every day and published it on the project’s blog. The faces came 'out of nowhere', there were no rules or restrictions. I have to use a computer for work every day, and I just wanted to discover and play with new things without computer.
What kinds of materials do you use to create the faces? Lots of different stuff, actually. I like materials without value, crazy objects and rubbish picked up from the street. I don’t really have to find materials. They arise pretty spontaneously.
Many of the faces seem pretty happy. Do you ever change up the emotions? It’s more fun to make a happy face. However, there are also anxious, strange and sad faces in the collection. My fans like a happy face much better!
Did you know there's a word for seeing faces in unusual places - 'pareidolia’? When I started the blog on 1 january 2011, I wasn’t aware of that. However, my followers keep sending all kinds of examples of ‘found’ faces. And now I see faces everywhere.
What do you think has been your most creative face to date? That’s a difficult question. The effect of combining a woollen face with an old picture or vintage postcard really surprised me. I did a few of these and placed them in a cardboard box, which creates a very striking piece of art.
When and why did you extend the project to 1001 Faces? End of 2011. When the original project drew to a close, I suddenly realised how much I would miss making them. This 1001 seemed a funny number and I would be able to reach it in a few years.
Do you think you'll ever run out of design ideas? I don’t expect that. Doing this is very much ‘me’. Already as a kid I was busy drawing, doing all kinds of handicrafts, building tree houses.
What do you hope to achieve with this project? In the beginning, I didn’t want to ‘achieve’ anything. Getting very nice feedback from a lot of people and from the press changed this a little bit. Recently, the Dutch publishing house BIS has launched a memory game based on my faces. Which you can get through my blog. In future I would love to make a book and calendar.
What's coming up next? More faces?
No more faces after 1001. I want to do something with animals, nature art, making toy’s ... my life is too short.
Making faces
Anja Brunt is a bit of a macgyver when it comes to eyes, ears, mouths and noses
Tell us a little about yourself I am a graphic designer living in Amsterdam, Holland, with my boyfriend and our two rabbits. I love to be outdoors, especially on the Wadden Islands in the north of Holland. My favourite spot in Amsterdam is Artis Zoo.
What is the 365 Faces Project? Just a project for pleasure. For one year, I created a face every day and published it on the project’s blog. The faces came 'out of nowhere', there were no rules or restrictions. I have to use a computer for work every day, and I just wanted to discover and play with new things without computer.
What kinds of materials do you use to create the faces? Lots of different stuff, actually. I like materials without value, crazy objects and rubbish picked up from the street. I don’t really have to find materials. They arise pretty spontaneously.
Many of the faces seem pretty happy. Do you ever change up the emotions? It’s more fun to make a happy face. However, there are also anxious, strange and sad faces in the collection. My fans like a happy face much better!
Did you know there's a word for seeing faces in unusual places - 'pareidolia’? When I started the blog on 1 january 2011, I wasn’t aware of that. However, my followers keep sending all kinds of examples of ‘found’ faces. And now I see faces everywhere.
What do you think has been your most creative face to date? That’s a difficult question. The effect of combining a woollen face with an old picture or vintage postcard really surprised me. I did a few of these and placed them in a cardboard box, which creates a very striking piece of art.
When and why did you extend the project to 1001 Faces? End of 2011. When the original project drew to a close, I suddenly realised how much I would miss making them. This 1001 seemed a funny number and I would be able to reach it in a few years.
Do you think you'll ever run out of design ideas? I don’t expect that. Doing this is very much ‘me’. Already as a kid I was busy drawing, doing all kinds of handicrafts, building tree houses.
What do you hope to achieve with this project? In the beginning, I didn’t want to ‘achieve’ anything. Getting very nice feedback from a lot of people and from the press changed this a little bit. Recently, the Dutch publishing house BIS has launched a memory game based on my faces. Which you can get through my blog. In future I would love to make a book and calendar.
What's coming up next? More faces?
No more faces after 1001. I want to do something with animals, nature art, making toy’s ... my life is too short.
Ontzettend leuk om te lezen, groet Francien
BeantwoordenVerwijderenDank je wel Francien!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenwow tof!!!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenProficiat, wat ontzettend leuk. Ik was natuurlijk allang een fan van je gezichtjes en natuurlijk van die blije. Fijn dat meerdere mensen daar zo over denken.
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