Typography

This week we are learning about typography. We have three assignments.

The first one is to create a "ransom" note by cutting letters out of magazines. The idea is to use the fonts to create a dramatic demand. My ransom note reads "Drop the salad and no one gets hurt" It is signed by Mars, a familiar name in chocolate! I looked for fonts that looked like junk food, and found a PopTart "S" and a Willy Wonka "M". Actually, it is a "W" but I turned it upside down. This was a nice project that opened my eyes to the many ways font can be used to deliver a message.

Our second assignment was to take a sentence and write it out using fonts to make the sentence look like what it says. Hmm, that sounds confusing. Basically, we had to "write" an expressive sentence. I selected the sentence "They were saturated with happiness". I drew all the "T"s to look like umbrellas and the "r"s to look like leaking water faucets. The rest of the letters were puffed up as if full of water. There are also some drops on them. I used a mixture of oil paints, markers and water colors for this project. The idea was to make it look as if all the letters were so full, so saturated with water that they looked ready to burst.

The last asssignment dealing with typography was to create a logo with our initials. I shall be uploading that soon.

Implied & Tactile Collage

My assignment here was to create a collage using two styles. The first format, implied, was to have the illusion of a textile. The second format, tactile, was to have actual 3D materials. I chose the same picture of a field with a tree and mountains for both formats.

Implied Collage

To make the waves of golden fields, I used cuttings of wavy hair. From far away, it does not look like hair. The mountains are pictures of tweed coats and the tree trunk is a leather purse. For the tree, I did a rubbing of mesh.

Tactile Collage

Using the same picture, I gathered materials that are similar in look to my original collage. The field this time is made of burlap and has a smattering of green in it. I've also added some grassy areas with a few flowers. The tree is made out of feathers wtih leaves cut from a fabric. The mountains were fun to make. I put a smathering of glue and let it dry for several days. On a piece of paper, I put 2 separate squirts of black and white acrylic paint and using a sponge, I touch lightly over both and dabbed the glue. To finish it off, I outlined the mountains using a big of black rick rack. Finally, I dabbed blue and white paint above the mountains and glued white filmy material, outlining with white round ribbon to create the clouds.

I think the implied collage needs work but I'm pretty happy with the tactile collage.