2b Type Collage

Type Collage:
This was one project that I didn't mind doing at all! It was very time consuming, but very fun. making type function as a purely compositional element took a bit of thought and a lot of work to make it all come together.

Type functioning as line:

This one came to my mind as soon as I got the idea of type being used as line. The salmon was from an older fishing photo. Then I took a picture of the hook with my iPhone since we were out fishing and it was right there. I wanted to use a font that was all capital letters so that the line was uniform. My husband really liked how this turned out, but then again... he is the fisherman.

Type functioning as Shape:

I've always loved this saying and since our little three-year-old totes stools around to get into everything, I thought I'd use the words to make this composition. Picking the fonts before putting together (different programs) was not easy, but after getting it all in place, I really liked it. I used four different fonts from Corel and manipulated them in Photoshop.

Type functioning as Texture: I just had way too much fun on this one... although it did not quite turn out how I was wanting it to (fonts), it was close enough. I used the Corel Photo Album to insert different texts over and over in layers. I couldn't begin to say how many texts were used. The picture of the Raven I found from www.rspb.org.uk the photo was called "raven in flight". I just had to add something to give it more of the effect of a sky since I didn't quite feel like it was getting where I wanted. I ended up liking the end result.

More finals submissions

Okay, here are a few drafts and sketches of a variety of book cover ideas. Absolutely none were done using the computer. I tried to used many different ideas. The first examples of bookcovers given and discussed were so similar that I didnt think it much of a choice. I am hoping these are closer as I was thinking that before an architects work goes into drafting details, the client needs to see some rough ideas before settling on which it is he/she wants. I figured it must be the same for what we are doing?

Final: first rough draft

I had submitted this as a first rough draft, but it was too much of a "photo shop" look to it. Here were a few words I had used:

The style of the design on top of the book kind of reflected a similar style to the logo she used. The actual photo is one I had used from an image online from a book titled "Photographer's Legal Guide, Carolyn E. Wright, Esq." I cropped the name out and focused on the main part of her photo that appealed to me which was the name "court house" and the elegant architecture which kind of reflected the client's appearance of elegance in her portrait and what I would imagine would attract a potential reader with this type of interest. To me, it displayed a more beautiful and inviting look to a courthouse. The colors I had chosen because of the client's interest in a natural look. The softer and more natural tones also have a calming effect as opposed to the red used in the examples. This is just one of the ideas for book covers I was tinkering with and leaning more towards thinking the client may approve of or consider.

7b Hierarchal Progression

I am hoping I am not alone in this endeavor of understanding, but I tore the words for the assignment discription apart in my head while reading it over and over. Ding dong...

I was looking over some pretty fun quotes and when I mentioned I was looking for a good quote for this assignment, my husband without hesitation said "The power of the pack is the wolf" and that it described our class. Seeing as we are all working hard individually for the same goal, I thought it was absolutely perfect (for our pack).

So I went online and found this sketched picture of a wolf on the site akvis.com this picture of a wolf sketched was an example of how their system worked to make a sketch from a photo in seconds. http://akvis.com/en/sketch-tutorial/examples/wolf-sketch.php Anyway, the sketched wolf was perfect for what I was looking for in this assignment.

The assignment said to make a series of five compositions in three colors, so I chose to use black, white, and blue. I tried to use the statement "the power of the pack is the wolf" in different linear ways, yet keeping it big enough to have the concentration on the words since it said the linear statement can be curved, straight, or as thick as you want. The statement was exactly the minimum of 8 words. I chose the Matisse typeface since it had a slightly wild look to it, but easy to read. I tried to keep the pieces balanced and added accents of blue in the eyes at times to balance the typeface. I was happy with the finished compositions and happy to be finished with them.

I must say our text is quite vague in a lot of areas. Good for making you study outside of the text as well as in, but bad when you really want to understand what it is trying to say.

Destination Motif Board

Okay. I had already started this before realizing it was extra credit, but... I had thought of a few different destinations, even Hawaii since I had a few pictures from our trip there last Summer. Seeing as this was supposed to be a group project to work as a team to share background and possible direction, I decided that I'd go with a destination that I knew and understood and at the same time is a very inviting tourist spot for it's culture, my home of Metlakatla, Alaska.
I thought I'd stick with the traditional colors of the native dancing, black and red. I had quite a few photos to choose from and after getting them into a folder of their own, I tried placing a few onto the canvas. It seemed like too many and too cluttered. I wanted to keep it simple with the main idea of what is here in Metlakatla.
I put new the photo of the William Duncan Memorial Church would have to be the first photo, because it is what our town was historically based upon and the first main building built. I tried a few more pictures, but removed them.
The next photo was the one of our oldest daughter, our beautiful Megan, in my mother's native regalia I had taken for her graduation (2006). Indian Dancing is always alluring for a visitor to watch and her expression was a sweet smile which is also attractive for a possible tourist... warm and inviting.
Hence, I had to have a picture of our long house. I drove down to the longhouse to take a picture and ended up catching one of a totem with seine boats docked in the background. We are a fishing community, so I thought the boats tied that in nicely. I had tried a picture of our boat, but had to remove it because it was just getting to busy.
With that, I played with each photo bringing them to the front then back again, giving some a soft edge, cropping, giving the main photo a beveled edge and a light reflection. The reflection of the canoe almost gives the illusion of the white part of it being a whole different boat on water (this canoe was not there last Summer and I was surprised to see it). Giving the right amount of reflection filled the bottom space between the two photos wonderfully and in a pretty fun and imaginable way without being too much.
The black and white canoe gave me the idea to make the picture of Meg black and white so it balanced out the layout with the picture of the church. I tried to chose a color red for the main title font to match the totem red in the opposite corner instead of the centered to balance out the layout again. Plus I tried to use a font that looked kind of tribal and the one I usually use was not available in this program, however, the one I chose was called "Bradley Hand" and I thought it ironic since my Meg's Boyfriend's name is Bradley. The second font, I wanted to go with the gray tones and more subtle to offset, yet compliment the main title.
When I was finished, I showed my mother and she was so impressed that she said I should show this to the people of our community. Ha! That was compliment enough for me...