| Print: First Place
Danielle Aubert
Yale University
The New Nomad
Objective: In this piece I wanted to convey a sense of the text as spatial, and used the metaphor of a fold-out map. I created paths that linked every instance of the name “Chatwin” to the bibliography at the end of the paper. I also created alternative paths between all instances of the word “nomad” and the word “travel.” On the back of the map I removed the counter-shapes from all the letterforms that appear on the front of the map. This way the back of the map provides a residue of the front and speaks to the unfixed nature of the nomad. This is a paper that I wrote as an undergraduate student. It discusses the emergence of a new class of nomads that results from the spread of capital: the business traveller, the migrant worker, the backpacker. It also discusses Bruce Chatwin’s writings in “The Songlines” about travel and nomadism throughout the world but especially in the Australian outback. I use Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of “smooth space” and “striated space” to illustrate the nomadic environment. This concept helped me think about how I wanted to present the text.
Tools used: I primarily used Adobe® InDesign® to lay out the text and draw the lines between words. I created the counters from the individual letterforms in Adobe Illustrator® and saved each column as a TIFF file. I then placed the TIFF files in the InDesign document.
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