From an extensive collection of randomly found objects, Paul Elliman has designed 'Bits' - an ongoing typographic design project. 'His survey of the detritus of contemporary urban experience establishes the designer as a conduit between the blank abstractions of the soft city existence and the kinetic rush of individuals careering through it's spaces, knocking bits off as they go'. He believes that the city is talking to him.
Paul Elliman asked 26 of his friends to meet at a passport photobooth and he assigned each of them a letter of the alphabet. Their responsibility was to 'act' out their letter - utilizing the practical limitations of both the photobooth and their own bodies.
Paul Elliman's 'alphabet' and 'bits' are typographies designed wherein alphabetic form shows our relationship with objects in urban space and ways in which the everyday contains performance.
He´s genious!
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