TITLE: Cat Font - Secret Message MEDIUM: Adobe Photoshop, Photograph

This was a typography project for my a digital media class where the project was to create an project where upon seeing it for the first time, you instinctly would know that you were looking at an image but your first impulse would be to read the image(s) as text. For this project I took several photographs of my two cats, Nyausicaa and Sakura and tried to acquire photos of interesting poses and positions. This is by no means an easy task I assure you as getting a cat to do what you want them to do is niegh impossible. However, over the course of a few days I was able to create a 26 character alphabetical font set from my cats and attempted to spell out a secret message:

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

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For those that are unfamiliar with this phrase, it is a specific tagline from a popular NBC show that I enjoy. I liked the idea of my cats spelling out a secret message that was both cryptic and comical. The method in which this project was originally presented was in a 12 piece card puzzle with each card showing only a section of the larger image above, making it a challenge to put together and even more of a challenge to solve the riddle.