Poster: 27 in x 36 in
Structure: about 60 in tall, 2.5 feet wide. Made of pine 2x4 boards, magnetic board (plywood and adhesive magnetic sheets), tray (lasercut 1/4" birch plywood), magnetic letters (lasercut and etched letter silhouettes from 1/4" birch plywood, acrylic paint), and "Word Tags" (lasercut and etched 1/4" birch plywood)

‍In this interactive station, I wanted people to experience what it's like to spell in color, and to explore the spelling of weird words to see what color patterns appear.

I built the structure from spare pine 2x4s, and from scrap birch plywood leftover in the makerspace I worked in. The structure itself is relatively short, because I wanted it to be accessible to children and anyone in a wheelchair.

I used a lasercutter to make the tray, the letters, and the Word Tags. The letters are lasercut as silhouettes, rather than exact letter outlines. In addition to the practicality of having a solid area without any fiddly counters, I also wanted to show how letters fill up space with color; they're an approximation, not exact. The letters are painted according to how I see them: A is red, M is purple, E is teal, and so on. The Word Tags are palm-sized, each etched with a weird word and its definition, such as "flibbertigibbet: a flight person."