I really wanted to find some research that others felt a motherly feeling towards Anat Cohen, but I did not. I guess even looking at the photographs that are out there of her, that I should have realized that she is more of a sensual/romantic figure than a strictly motherly one. The work that I had done for the past two "sketch" assignments for this poster was a mixture of mainly failure. I couldn't wrap my head around the idea of just focusing on different aspects of the poster, I just wanted to jump in to the part of the sketches that are due today. So, I took some of the ideas from the two sketch pieces and added a few new ones.
My problems with using the tropes to help create ideas is all I think about initially are the corny/no one would go to the event if I used that as the gimmick to go. Then my mind would just basically shut down and I would be back to page one. So, below are my attempts to use the tropes that I feel fit and mix that with the mood that I want to create/that reviewers have described.
I worked more with the traditional to abstract layouts, and briefly attempted a iteration of the cover. I feel that most likely I can still push the abstract layouts more and I also think that I need to add a smoother transition between the traditional and abstract. the current text to describe my structure for the book.
The main concept behind this book revolves around the trail of traditional and easy to explain to an abstract idea. The breakdown of what we can accept as a physical item to what can only be spoken about and not always understood. One can explain and show what “a chair” is, but one cannot easily explain and show what “more” is. This is the same concept that can be used to trying to understand the poems. At first the poems may appear to be simple, but there is more that goes into them than what meets the eye. Thus, the actual layout of each poem will slowly lose traditional poetry form into more abstract layouts where hierarchy is tampered with.
things to do, post crit with class, mK + seniors.
-rework TOC, make more traditional
-frame current TOC
-refine work on new cover design
-note page, make text smaller, not 10.5 but smaller
-look more at relationship of each layout + try to make them cousins
-a few refinements in kerning+word placement+overlap
-look more at final layout+add cross mingling
-look into other possible paper changes?
-look more into the actual binding
what is it.
the movement/animation of type to effectively express the information. basically this is the way to put the emphasis where it needs to be for the most impact.
what i think about it.
There was brief work with this concept last year and that is where I started to see the importance of using animated text. It really is a good tool to use to help move the focus of the text where you think it should be for the audience to get the most out of what you or the text is trying to say. Instead of only being able to vocally show emphasis on a particular word or phrase, you can also do that by making the text larger, or having that text spend a larger amount of time on the screen.
The examples below are ways that I hope that I will be able to use kinetic text in the future. I not only want to bring emphasis to spoken words, but also create images with text that help to further explain the message. Kinetic type allows the words to make a larger impact by often visually illustrating the message.
examples of it.
Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.
I was sent this video last year. The video is alright, it could be better, but I'm not totally sure how that could be done and work well. This was the first video that I thought of when I read about kinetic type. It is a pretty much how I think spoken word poetry/quotes should be like when visual represented. The progression of the words appearing on the screen tries to follow in the rhythm of the speaker.
78RPM - MP3 | 70 Years of Revolutionary Protest Music from Dan Flynn on Vimeo.
I thought this video was pretty effective. It combined the music and lyrics connotation with the visual connotation of the lyrics. I think the transitions could have been run a bit smoother or more rough; it was a bit of an odd transition between songs. But it was cool how the lyrics were presented, especially in the first song.
Typography in Motion from ilovetypography.com on Vimeo.
The most exciting part for me was that this piece highly educational. I really enjoyed how some parts of the video had the exact lines that the narrator was reading, as well as other times when using depth or other images help build up to a quote. What I loved the most was the end composition based off of the whole set up of the statements during the video. I feel that in general that is how typography should work, each line should help build the composition, but it is the overall view of the product that is most important.
My favorite video that I found. I had heard the song/words before on the Tom Waits' CD. But I felt that the visuals really went with what I had thought of a bit when I heard it. When there was the key moment of noise or a phrase, it was nice to see that the type movement corresponded with it.
