mpkoz “These two editions -- #198 and #760 -- are some of my favorites in the entire collection. CDMX also vies for my favorite city trait as well. It was the last trait I designed. Before I found the direction for CDMX, I tried many ideas, all of which failed, and ended up facing one of the biggest cases of writer’s block and burn out in my recent past. The city itself is one of the most complex and interesting places I’ve ever visited, and almost nothing I attempted came close to encompassing what I felt when I was there.
The deadline for the Metropolis upload was fast approaching and stress mounted. Two or three days before the deadline, the levee broke and I arrived at the final algorithm and immediately loved it. The angular lines cut by organic curves recall the almost comical lack of city planning in the city, roadways that speak to its ancient history. The differing levels of magnification and polygon offsetting, jagged zig zags, and the white space usage, all combine to make what I wanted from the beginning: an animalistic, chaotic, geometric portrait of a tropical, Aztec-rooted city bursting with life.
#198 and #760 are fantastic examples of these things. Beyond the rare color palette, they are organic, complicated, and loosely figurative. They remind me of sculptures, busts of some anonymous couple, relics from the past. Most CDMX editions, especially when combined with their diptych, look like exotic animals to me. These, on the other hand, appear human, which is probably my favorite thing about them.”