Jon Wong: Monomyth Monomyth is a look at the parallel, overlapping narratives found in science fiction movies. This book is the result of combining the plot lines of some of my favorite films. Accordingly, the images weave together multiple shapes and colors. Since the movies I chose to watch were typically sci fi films from the 70s and 80s, I wanted to use a color-palette that reminded me of the artwork I used to see as a kid. Nowadays, science fiction imagery tends to stick to cooler palettes of blacks and blues, but growing up I remember oranges, reds, and even purples. The visual style of these pages provides a perfect backdrop to an artful linking of science fiction with myth. I find myself wishing I could read the work in full. Jon Wong: Monomyth Monomyth is a look at the parallel, overlapping narratives found in science fiction movies. This book is the result of combining the plot lines of some of my favorite films. Accordingly, the images weave together multiple shapes and colors. Since the movies I chose to watch were typically sci fi films from the 70s and 80s, I wanted to use a color-palette that reminded me of the artwork I used to see as a kid. Nowadays, science fiction imagery tends to stick to cooler palettes of blacks and blues, but growing up I remember oranges, reds, and even purples. The visual style of these pages provides a perfect backdrop to an artful linking of science fiction with myth. I find myself wishing I could read the work in full. Jon Wong: Monomyth Monomyth is a look at the parallel, overlapping narratives found in science fiction movies. This book is the result of combining the plot lines of some of my favorite films. Accordingly, the images weave together multiple shapes and colors. Since the movies I chose to watch were typically sci fi films from the 70s and 80s, I wanted to use a color-palette that reminded me of the artwork I used to see as a kid. Nowadays, science fiction imagery tends to stick to cooler palettes of blacks and blues, but growing up I remember oranges, reds, and even purples. The visual style of these pages provides a perfect backdrop to an artful linking of science fiction with myth. I find myself wishing I could read the work in full. Jon Wong: Monomyth Monomyth is a look at the parallel, overlapping narratives found in science fiction movies. This book is the result of combining the plot lines of some of my favorite films. Accordingly, the images weave together multiple shapes and colors. Since the movies I chose to watch were typically sci fi films from the 70s and 80s, I wanted to use a color-palette that reminded me of the artwork I used to see as a kid. Nowadays, science fiction imagery tends to stick to cooler palettes of blacks and blues, but growing up I remember oranges, reds, and even purples. The visual style of these pages provides a perfect backdrop to an artful linking of science fiction with myth. I find myself wishing I could read the work in full. Jon Wong: Monomyth Monomyth is a look at the parallel, overlapping narratives found in science fiction movies. This book is the result of combining the plot lines of some of my favorite films. Accordingly, the images weave together multiple shapes and colors. Since the movies I chose to watch were typically sci fi films from the 70s and 80s, I wanted to use a color-palette that reminded me of the artwork I used to see as a kid. Nowadays, science fiction imagery tends to stick to cooler palettes of blacks and blues, but growing up I remember oranges, reds, and even purples. The visual style of these pages provides a perfect backdrop to an artful linking of science fiction with myth. I find myself wishing I could read the work in full. Jon Wong: Monomyth Monomyth is a look at the parallel, overlapping narratives found in science fiction movies. This book is the result of combining the plot lines of some of my favorite films. Accordingly, the images weave together multiple shapes and colors. Since the movies I chose to watch were typically sci fi films from the 70s and 80s, I wanted to use a color-palette that reminded me of the artwork I used to see as a kid. Nowadays, science fiction imagery tends to stick to cooler palettes of blacks and blues, but growing up I remember oranges, reds, and even purples. The visual style of these pages provides a perfect backdrop to an artful linking of science fiction with myth. I find myself wishing I could read the work in full. Jon Wong: Monomyth Monomyth is a look at the parallel, overlapping narratives found in science fiction movies. This book is the result of combining the plot lines of some of my favorite films. Accordingly, the images weave together multiple shapes and colors. Since the movies I chose to watch were typically sci fi films from the 70s and 80s, I wanted to use a color-palette that reminded me of the artwork I used to see as a kid. Nowadays, science fiction imagery tends to stick to cooler palettes of blacks and blues, but growing up I remember oranges, reds, and even purples. The visual style of these pages provides a perfect backdrop to an artful linking of science fiction with myth. I find myself wishing I could read the work in full.

Jon Wong: Monomyth

Monomyth is a look at the parallel, overlapping narratives found in science fiction movies. This book is the result of combining the plot lines of some of my favorite films. Accordingly, the images weave together multiple shapes and colors. Since the movies I chose to watch were typically sci fi films from the 70s and 80s, I wanted to use a color-palette that reminded me of the artwork I used to see as a kid. Nowadays, science fiction imagery tends to stick to cooler palettes of blacks and blues, but growing up I remember oranges, reds, and even purples.

The visual style of these pages provides a perfect backdrop to an artful linking of science fiction with myth. I find myself wishing I could read the work in full.

Apr. 11 2012
#graphic design #print design #page layout #jon wong #science fiction #myth #dreams
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“I was thinking a lot about myth-making, and that put me very much in the mood to create my own opera, but I had no idea what the theme should be. Then I met Peter in 1983, and he proposed the idea and even the title for Nixon in China. My first response was pretty skeptical—Nixon was little more than a butt for late-night comedians by that time. But I eventually realized it was a perfect idea, and that it was right to find our mythology in our own contemporary history.”
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John Adams, on the creation of Nixon in China

I’m really quite excited to see this on Saturday night.

Feb. 17 2011
#john adams #nixon in china #myth #mythology #opera #minimalism #post-minimalism
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