Rachel Scott
(She/Her)
I am a Scottish designer currently based in London, whose work is motivated by conceptual and idea-driven briefs. Most of my practice revolves around historical research, transformed with digital and technological processes. I communicate ideas across a wide range of disciplines, including branding, art direction, type design, 3D modelling, and motion design.
Neo-Medieval Typeface
A semi-Gothic typeface, primarily inspired by a 1474 French Gotico-Antiqua printed type found in medieval incunabula. This unique transitional style is historically situated between the transition from Gothic type and the development of Roman type. This mixed type combines a Roman uppercase with a Gothic rotunda lowercase. This digitised revival connects the parallels between the 15th and 21st centuries, which has been called ‘neo-medievalism’.
Neo-Medieval Typeface Specimen
Sensical
by Rachel Scott, Natalie Yong and Heesoo Lim
Sensical is a perfume house that crafts scents that should and shouldn’t work. Unexpected accords, contradictory notes, compositions that unsettle before they turn heads. Inspired by the weird and wonderful worlds within Surrealism, each perfume is based off a specific painting.
Digital Sampler
Digital Sampler is a moving image installation created in touch designer and after effects exploring the transformation between material and digital textiles.
Inspired by the meditative process of embroidering, the moving images (created in touch designer) depicts flowing patterns inspired by historical pattern books and embroidery samplers. The movement represents the repetitive motion of stitching, and the trance like effects it can have on the makers body and mind.
Internet Artefacts
I focused this project on the idea of ‘digital decay’, the gradual degradation and corruption of digital data and assets. Throughout my research, I kept making connections between digital decay, the current state of the internet and archaeological methods. The terms “digital dark age”, “deleted city”, and “digital Pompeii” all relate to archaeological practices.
By using 3d scans of museum artefacts, I combined lost data and images scraped from the early internet and engraved them into digitised artefacts to create an ‘internet artefact’ using blender. I combined these archaeological and digital elements to highlight the Internet’s impermanence.
Internet Artefacts Website
Interactive website for a conceptual online museum archive of lost internet data in the style and format of early 2000s websites.
