revised paragraph for line book

In Westport you can find many things, objects, places, and people. All of these things no matter what they are have one thing in common with each other. everything you perceive in this world is made up of points and lines. These elements can be curved , diagonal or as strait as an arrow. Lines are everywhere, and relate to each other more then anything else in this world. Every angle can have a reflection, every line will continue in space, wether it be physical or metaphysical space inside your imagination. Take a walk into the third dimensional world, and observe the wholesome power of the continuous point. Look at the harmoniously weaving curves curbside. Check out all the crossed intersecting lines that make up things like parking garages. Go take a walk and make your own line through this dimension and see the building block of form with appreciation.

3d letter form procces

Constructing an abstracted letter form.

In this post is a few shots of creating an abstracted form of an uppercase letter I. My focus on form was to bring more dynamic angles to the uppercase letter I. I personally feel the letter I is over looked do to its simple form.  What i did was play with stroke to make sections of squares smaller in scale to larger in scale. The project was constructed from foam core.

I feel i succeded in makeing the form of "I" more dynamic by adding such square angles. This idea was perfict for the shape of "I" and would not have worked as well with a letter form with curved strokes or counters.

I then spray painted the planes with a white surface. So far I've applied about 3 or 4 coats.        I feel my overall craft could have been more focused on do to a lot of seam issues along the edges. I fixed this by applying tape and a few more coats of paint.

After construction we began studting form in space with black and white digital photography.

the last of these three images is one of my outcomes. The cropping of the form in this picture creates a feeling of stability. its also a visual metaphor because you can also perceive a feeling of unbalanced do to the angle of the form.

later we will be constructing another accordion style book with photo pairs of our letter forms.

Lines, lines, more lines, maybe some curves too :)

Lines, lines, lines, lines,  

So here pictured on the left are pair options for page spreads. the images will be 7x7 and the book will be accordion style binding.

Not all of these pairs will appear within the book. The goal of this project is to create juxtapositional pairs, and help us refine our photography, abstract thinking, hand drawing, and craft skills.  So far I have learned a great deal about how images get chosen in the process of book design. some pairs are more stronger then others based on the photograph, line quality, contrast, depth, and various other variables. Some of these image pairs will be omitted from the book do to small things like alignment, or perhaps it needs to be replaced with a curved line to achieve a better balance within the books pages.  We want to focus on keeping each pair of images interesting compositional. The second pair of images, from the top of the image on the left is a prime example of a page spread that is not that interesting  compositional wise.

Flash animation recap

So in typography we created a flash video depicting 2 fonts and how they mesh together via animation. In an earlier post you can find the complete animation. in this post you will find the process of creating the content for the Flash video.

On the left is one of multiple scans of drawings cropped from 2 different fonts. My letter was m. This is a set of drawings for the font, ITC New Baskerville STD.
The goal was to crop interesting parts of the letter that have a good contrast in positive and negative space.


The other font chosen was Utopia.
further in the project I omitted utopia m's and replaced them with Bell Gothic STD to help the viewer see the change when we reached the flash portion of the project. Bell Gothic has no serifs which increased the difference in the 2 font choices   The change was good example to how 2 fonts can be similar and further more hard to tell apart based on what your using the type face for.

This second image are the vectorized versions of my chosen cropped views. notice Im still using Utopia at this point. (both sets of four have serifs)

All are re sized and have cleaned up appearance.

 

The third image is 3 diffrent animation sequences.
This is kind of story board style. By adding this part in before hitting the flash tools, a designer can help map out directional movement to get a more natural movement. Its also useful to help show your ideas for an animation to team members, other designers, or colleagues before the actual animation comes in. This will help save a designer lots of time in case he makes an animation and the client doesn't like the movement of the object or type.

next we chose images to mask in our animations, from this point on everything was primarily digital.
we ended with our complete animations.  Mine was not furnished with sound at the turn in date. But i utilized some digital sound editing and recording tools to create a music loop featuring myself on dejembe and my girlfriend Harmony lovell on guitar to add into my animation.

reading response-color

So to recapture my thoughts on what I read (page 1-11) in Interaction of Color i will write this post. basicly what i read reiterated my previous thoughts surrounding color. Color is reconizable to every single person, but not distict hues or shades. when someone says red all the listeners are familure with red, but each person will have a different shade or thought or memory of the color mentioned.

color is prevalent in our world EVERYWHERE. But not naturally as a single hue. given the natural light and direction of light colors will change either lighter or darker depending on the viewers perspective.   i might be staring at a huge completly red billboard head on with the sunlight shineing right on it and it would be a bright shade of red. However, if the sunlight was behind the billboard, the shade of red would be much darker given the shadow.

color is an amazing phenomenon in my perspective of this world and I'm absolutely stoked to start our color theory.