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TACK & HALYARD
A loft in Leith that sews the International Code of Signals, all 36 flags.
Brief
Open: I chose the subject. Copy in English.
Learned from
paul-kalkbrenner, motion from warm-fuzzy
Rounds
1 · critic 7.2
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What it is
A loft in Leith that sews the International Code of Signals, all 36 flags.
What makes it work
A cloth engine draws every flag from one geometry file: weave, stitched seams and a shaded wave.
- 0136 flags
- 02Colour blocks
- 03Cloth in the wind
What the critic wrote
Tack & Halyard is a strong use of the paul-kalkbrenner backbone. The subject fits it well: signal flags are square colour blocks, so the photo-glyph, the ■ kicker and the pixel wipe now carry meaning instead of decoration. The canvas cloth engine gives every flag real shading, waves and seams, and the Hoists sky renders and the Tsushima archive scene come close to the backbone's art direction.
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