Building of Type

I ran across this amazing article where there was a building made in Korea of all type, which was wicked.  Check it out!  Images are from the article located below, the company has done some other awesome things too...CHECK IT OUT!


The article is located here
The firm's website is located here

Reading Response: Laura Fields & Page 3 Sutra

I will start off this response stating that I loved what Laura Fields did with the layouts and cutting out of old President Bush. It reminded me a lot of what I tried to accomplish in my How-To project; having an symbol stand in for an actual image. In both cases I feel that the symbol holds more of a story and impact than a straight photograph ever could. By taking away some of what we normally see, you give the possibility to more and a greater meaning than a photograph initially held.

In general this is the same idea that we are using in our current project. We initially thought of two different point of views, and for each we created a list of words. And for those words we ended up establishing a set of symbols, icons, textures, colors, photographs, illustrations, and found text to describe each word. From all of those assets we were to start putting together small variations of posters and now the actual posters that express our point of views. Through this project the main thing that is being pushed is how each piece in a composition has the ability to say everything and nothing; the meaning depends on the way an object is used and what it is used with.


I thought it was very interesting to think that a company can attain/request to always have the same part of a newspaper to advertise.  I had never thought that the image that was used in an advertisement was chosen on purpose to mimic a shape that was used in a photograph on the other column of the newspaper.  Then I though back to the experience that I've had with school newspapers (junior high, high school and college) and don't remember companies being able to choose where their advertisements go; let alone knowing what the photograph was on the column next to it, so that it corresponded to something in their advertisement.  Overall, I find that very clever, and will have to look at advertisements more often, to see if there is some form of an article's photograph that corresponds to advertisements nearby.

Project Six: Typographic Intervention Final Product

This post is dedicated to the final product of our rendition of American Typewriter Standard "memory."  Below are close ups of each letter, as well as the final photograph of our typography out in the environment and the interaction spread of two photographs.

Although we ran into problems throughout the process, we ended up with a nice set of letters and great photographs.  We ran into problems of distributing work, using pixelated images, cutting out letters in foam board, adhering the newspaper to the letters, and smoothing down the newspaper to lie flat on the foam board.  In the end, we were able to come together and create a fairly well done set of letters.  What we wanted to focus on was combining our two main connotations of "memory".  This is why our location initially was split between playground and graveyard.  We wanted to pull both ideas into one visual composition, to alter the connotation of the word.  The group had decided that the best way to do this was to bring the playground in for standing for childhood and use an older typeface.  We stuck with the bright colors of images on the front of the letters to still play with childhood.  Then we stuck with the typeface and kept the black and white newspapers to represent older memories.  

The final "Typography in the Environment."

The interaction spread final.

m1 

m1 - close up

 e

 e - close up

 m2

 m2 - close up

 o

 o - close up

 r

 r - close up

 y

y close up

"memory" on display in the Graphic Design gallery.

Project Six: Typographic Intervention Process

This is the blog post dedicated to the creation of our word, memory.

Step1: Print to scale and cut out each letter.

 Step 2: Trace the letter onto foam board and cut out with a X-ACTO knife.

  Step 3: Completely cover with newspaper.

 Step 4: Mod Podge it.

Step 5: Adhere images/memories to the front.

From these collages of images, we traced the letter onto the collage print out and pasted onto letter.

 Step 6: Trim front images/memories down.

 Step 7: Finalized letters together.

The letters laid out.

The letters on top of one another - collection of memories in color.

The letters on top of one another - collection of memories in black & white.

 Step 7.5: Finalized letters setting up in environment.

Stop the letters from falling!

Use teamwork + add some tape to make them stay in place.

Sometimes more tape is needed than not.

Add just a little bit of fun and you have step 7.5 down!

 Step 8: Finalized letters in environment.

Many memories begin on a playground during youth.  The reason we cut off the end of the slide was to give the feeling that each memory never really ends; they continue to infinity.

 Step 9: Finalized letters with interaction.

A playground bystander walks by and takes a look at our memory.

An amazing visual simile at play in this photo.  A tie to our concept of memories of childhood starting on a playground is seen with a baby going down another slide into a mother's arms.

Illustrating An Idea: Book Cover Final

Below are my final book covers for the Illustrating An Idea project.  The first part of the process was to create three theme image compositions for three different stories.  The second part was to create a cover for each story based off of the theme compositions and the story in general.  I struggled a lot in the beginning with designing the theme compositions but I feel that it really came together when I designed the covers.  It seemed as if the story came alive with the covers, creating the emotions that I wanted to associate with the stories.  I feel that the emotions associated with Edgar Allan Poe and each story are just as important as the plot itself.  One of the main style elements that is repeated in Poe's work is a dark, eerie, and off settling feeling.  His work is normally read more often near Halloween, so I definitely wanted to keep that within my covers.  I also wanted to keep the themes evident through the use of an image, object, or color scheme from the three themes.

From the first and only class critique on my book covers, the response was fairly positive.  I had two solid designs, that needed no work.  "The Tell-Tale Heart" cover was the only cover that still needed work done post critique.  The main changes that needed to happen was editing the layout of the title and author.

"The Pit and the Pendulum"

themes: suffering/depression, fear/unknown, torture

"Silence: a Fable"

themes: control, insecurity, solitude

"The Tell-Tale Heart"

themes: guilt, time/change, identity

Illustrating An Idea: Book Cover Almost Finals

At this part of the assignment we were to create a book cover for each story we read.  I wanted to pull ideas, colors, layout and images straight from my final 3 theme layouts from each story.  The only requirement was the title and author's name.  Below are the title of the short story follow by my initial sketch, an after that is the variations that I did of each cover.

The Pit and the Pendulum

quick cover sketch

The difference between these two variations is the color.

Silence: a Fable

quick cover sketch

The difference between these two variations are the cropping of the image.

The Tell-Tale Heart

quick cover sketch

The main difference between these three variations were the placement of the title and author.