Blink Gallery

Blink.  This is a design I thought about doing more than 10 years ago.  I had a photo of a stop sign, and I thought of this idea to have it say ‘Blink’.  I did the design below in Inkscape, but it didn’t look right with the type, so I moved on to bigger projects.

Here’s that original design before it was changed later in 2022 to its current form:

When I was sick from early 2022 to just the beginning of 2025 with my botched wisdom tooth surgery, broken jaw and other surgery late in 2024, I had time to work on all these old designs I had laying around.

Blink was one where I wanted it to be a take on the act of seeing itself.  You probably blink all the time, but aren’t conscious of how many times you do it in a day.  Even writing this to you, I became conscious of blinking, but its so fast you can still maintain attention.

Blinking is so fast you don’t even notice and it just happens automatically.  When you forget about blinking and think of something else, your body will still do it again for you.  It got me to realize how in art you try to control everything like how everything looks, but in so doing I realized we human beings are in way less control than we realize.