CMYnoK(ey)

Chance, Color, and the serendipitous outcomes of individual and collective free Play frame this project, requiring the viewers’ engagement for it to come alive and further create. Recording their experience with the elements provided and the visual aesthetic outcomes of their creations will be the generators of my future design work, one that started as a play on chance and one that will be further enriched by it. 

The colorful acrylic shapes were created by chance—a journey with no agenda in mind except to follow the flow of the line. In contrast, a structured pegboard serves as a canvas, bringing gravity and consistency into a sort of push and pull between freedom and constraint.

The title, CMYnoK(ey), is a play on words in the four-color printing process. Not only is she purposefully leaving K (black) out of the mix, but by doing so, the audience is denied its key (printing plate with most information or guide), freeing it from a prefixed image to which the colors CMY (cyan, magenta, and yellow) would have to align or register to. Allowing space for free experimentation through the combination of shapes and color mixing, aided by the material's transparency, is the goal.

It’s an invitation to Experiment, Engage, and Play freely!

Carolina Izsák

Graduate Graphic Design Studio II / Spring 2024