Twelve reference posters
Twelve posters, each answering one magazine reference with an abstraction of a General Translation artifact.
How it was directed
Kevin changed direction on the evening of October 28. He sent magazine covers and posters as references and asked for graphics that are interesting to look at, built from abstractions of General Translation's own dithered artifacts, such as the particle globe from sign-in. He asked for each image to work as one poster rather than as a set of slides, for the 4:5 format first, and for the words to carry what the pictures leave out.
His first verdict was that the set followed its references too closely and carried too much text, and he asked for more original work with fewer words. Later that night, after round two, he called round one the better base. The next day he kept specific rows of this sheet, and those posters became the base of every later round.
What was made
Twelve posters, each answering one of the magazine references Kevin sent with an abstraction of a GT artifact (the dithered sign-in globe, the Blue Marble, the language map, Glyphfield shaders). The review ranked ten and cut two, and the sheet shows the ten with their channel variants as 18 tiles.
What carried forward
Kevin rejected the set for copying its references and carrying too much text, but its look survived: he called round one better that night and on 2026-10-29 kept rows 1, 2 and 5 and dot-join.
Every other file
The files the round produced beyond the ones it showed: drafts, alternates and sheets.
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Almanac date
Artifacts
Basecamp lockup
Beam construction
Bilingual
Chrome spines
Dot join
Founders issue
Founders lineup
Globe particle
Polar languages
Stipple earth
Vertical numerals
