Show & Tell #3

I saw this and thought it was perfect for our class!

My attempts at dealing with a paragraph of text in a grid!

For this project, we were asked two words from a list given to the class and show what they mean using its characteristics in a visual design. Disruption and elimination were the two word choices that I chose to use and am happy with my choices. I think that the design "elimination" was successful and though it was a very simple turn on the word choice, I think it is a design that draws attention to see if the word has been misspelled and to later see that all "i's" have been eliminated. For the word disruption, I think that there are a few small things that could have been done, differently but overall, I am with this design.

The two images at the top are those of the assignment where we had to take two words that related to one another, even if showing how opposite they are to one another, and show that relationship visually as well. I think I was much more successful with this part of the assignment and that could be because there were two words this time around, but I found it easier to be a bit more creative with these word choices. Seek & Destroy were a popular set and I think that this set was fun to work with because you can clearly see the explosion designed with the word destroy and how subtle seek is until the last repetition. After I finished with this word set and went to move on to the next, I found it difficult to choose another set. Seek & Destroy was easy, in a sense, to design because the message of the words were so clear. However, I came across Outside & Inside and found a way to show the meaning by literally creating a box using the words and then putting one or the other, inside or outside of that box. I think overall, this word set was my favorite to do because it was fun to play around with how to flip the words and actually create the boxes using the words.

Process of Word Project

These are a few versions of either one word visual descriptions of a word or a few versions of two words.

Show and Tell #2

I liked this photo of typography because it is a form that people see everyday. The WARNING form of typography. Its something so simple that can stir so many emotions, such as fear of what it means and the intensity of the message. It clearly get across that the message is important and must be viewed immediately. Using the bold thick san-serif and bright red color also emphasises the seriousness of the words. This particular photo was just the icon and if clicked on revealed a long flyer giving the description of where a party was taking place so in essence the eviction tube was only for encourage it being read and for drama.

Text Project #2

Here is the 2nd version of the manipulation of text.

Text Project #1

Here is my first manipulation of the text.

The Final Product!!

Letter Project

These drawings show the process I went through in choosing my solution for the logo using my initials. I found this assignment more difficult than I had originally anticipated because there were so many variations to choose from and it was hard to pick only one. I struggled with using lowercase letters, uppercase, or a combination of both and also which font to use. I found that this project helped me to see that letters may seem to be just characters used to create words but they are actually so much more than that. How they are arranged can determine the message the send as well as the type face and style used. My initials became much more than just a few characters.

Show & Tell #1

I chose this photo because in a comical way, it shows the action of the what has happened in the photo. The guy who took the photo had a cold and went through all of the tissues and decided to turn it into an interesting snapshot of typography. I thought it was funny to see how almost any situtation can be an opportunity to show typography.