Progress&What Not.

^^letters are all done, just need to make the PDF file as a professional document

I am fine tuning the background images for my second project - I have multiple options of what I like so far, but there is still a lot of work I need to do on it. I havent started the Digital Immigrant document yet, just the Native one.

The red, blue, and green lines are meant to be sort of an abstracted version of wires in RGB since the generation of digital natives is super connected with technology and RGB being the colors in which screens create a color spectrum.

Project 2/Progress on Surroundings

New idea for project 2
Concepts taken from here>> Digital Natives; Digital Immigrants

Two posters, collage style, illustrating these concepts. Thinking of doing a side profile of a person on each poster, then having imagery sort of sprouting up out of the heads of the people. Typography will only include 'Digital Native' and Digital Immigrant' on each. I will probably take most of the photography for this, anything I pull from other sources I will vectorize in Illustrator and modify significantly to make my own.

A couple styles I really like -

link:: http://reincarnatedconstructivism.tumblr.com/


For project 1 I think I am just being overly picky at this point. It is basically ready to turn in but I am continuously going back and moving the imagery around. In the process of making the final PDF for this, but I need to quit touching up the imagery before I can have a final PDF. One major thing I still need to do is resize and reposition my letters. I didnt want them to be centered, but some of the capital letters need more space, so the document may end up being centered, which I think will be fine.

Here are some of the letters that I like in the second set, I forgot to post anything from last week about this.

Project 2

Almost finished with Project 1 finally. Should be ready to turn in this weekend, I’m basically just fine tuning at this point, and also trying human figures in some of the letters to see how it fits, but as of right now I’m leaning more towards staying with architecture and organic shapes in nature.

Now on to the second project that I’ll be starting while fine tuning the first one! Originally I had posted about wanting to do vintage style horror movie posters or minimal horror movie posters.

Then I found this::

(I believe his website can be found here.)


And I thought that was pretty sweet.

I would love to do 4 posters for this project (sized smaller probably around 11x17…maybe a little bigger) in a similar way to have them be displayed together.

For this I want to take 4 of my favorite horror(ish) movies – Halloween, Donnie Darko, Psycho, and The Exorcist – and then choose a main character from each and have the visuals show the character, and the surroundings of the poster embody the mood, traits, desires, or sort of inner workings of that character.

Halloween:: Michael Myers
Donnie Darko:: Donnie Darko
Psycho:: Norman Bates
The Exorcist :: Regan MacNeil

I chose these characters in particular because I think they all have some sort of back story, well known attributes, weaknesses, or types of problems that I could find many ways to display these things visually. 

As of now, I’m still planning on displaying the movie’s title on the poster, but probably smaller than the name of the actual character that I am portraying because I want the character and their traits to be the main focus.

I want to stick with more of a blocky graphic look like the example I found has, and have each poster only make use of a few carefully chosen colors. 

I plan on using these original posters to mirror the color schemes that were used, into my own posters.

Artist Statement (First Draft)

Project 1 Artist Statement -

Type & Common Surroundings

Take seemingly ordinary, everyday visuals, and combine them to create an uncommon representation of what they once were. That is the essence of this piece.  Each day we take in so much visual information that we literally can not process completely each and every thing that we see. Because of this visual overload we experience, many things become less appreciated, or simply overlooked. But it is these common surroundings and visuals we experience that have the potential to be something interesting.

For this piece I took an Arial font because of its simplicity and frequent usage, and combined each letter of the alphabet with photographs taken of common surroundings that would normally be overlooked. I wanted the flow, patterns, textures, subtle variations, and minimalistic technique to create a piece that would engage its viewer to perhaps rethink the commonality of the two subjects here: Type and Common Surroundings.

The presentation of this piece, a very large format, was a choice that I made to balance the fact that some of the letters have been left to look more minimal and less involved than others. Mimicking the way we are bombarded with daily visual information, the format is large enough to be easily noticed, but one must stop and look closer to actually absorb the information. As with the visuals we take in every day, variation within these letters was a key aspect I focused on to make each letter its’ own unique composition.

 

Currently about half way done with this lettering project. Definitely ready to move on and start something else. I feel like I've got some interesting patterns and shapes going on in most of the letters that I've done, but I honestly think I need to go shoot more photos one last time to get the variety that I'm wanting for this.

I could easily just use the photos I have for now to finish all the letters, but I wont be totally happy with it. So, it looks like it will only be partially finished for critique today, but I'd rather it be partially finished, and be able to go take one more round of photos this week, and finish the project up this weekend, rather than have a finished product for today that I'm not 100% happy with. That's life I suppose.

 

As with anything too, I have run into some issues. Some of the letters (such as J and I) are very minimal. I don't have a problem with that, I actually like that some letters are so minimal, I really like the way J looks, but the letter I...not so much. Hoping to solve that problem when I go take more photos.