Project One: Week Two

Project One is a consecutive project that is due every week with the same rules. It is three pieces that are 11in x 17in. These three pieces (three produced each week) has to be based on one word that has a lot of meanings.

Week Two of Project One was due was August 31, 2016, this is what I produced and installed in class. The first three are the original photos, and beneath that is how I actually installed them in class.

By the time my class Image started, everyone was pretty tired so our teacher gave us 15 minutes to do whatever. In those 15 minutes I wanted to figure out a way for my pieces to stand out (not just rectangles on the wall), so I thought quickly on what to do. This is the first thing that came into my head and I could picture it perfectly, so I decided to quickly apply this to my work. Below are detail shots of each one.

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Learning Summary #2

I started out wanting to make a miniature book based on microtypography. The more I learned about it, the more I realized that all the components that make microtypography are along the same lines of macro, or "normal" typography. I decided to move towards making an all around book on letter spacing and all of the different terms, or just a book about typographic terms. This is some of my research on Microtypography that I am going to incorporate into my new book. Microtypography is concerned with the more individual features of letterforms Macro-typography is all about how typography is arranged on a web page. Macro-typographical techniques can be achieved on CSS but we must also bear in mind that the Web itself is changing rapidly. Macro-typography is all about how paragraphs and groups of sentences are placed together and how they appear on a page. Microtypography has to do with the details; setting the right glyph, getting the appropriate kerning and tracking, and...

Project One: Week Three

Project One is a consecutive project that is due every week with the same rules. It is three pieces that are 11in x 17in. These three pieces (three produced each week) has to be based on one word that potentially has a lot of meanings. Week Three of Project One was due September 12. For this project, I wanted to do something that didn't involve the human body. These aren't my best, and I wish I would have done better than this, but there are always good and bad projects! It's a way of learning. For these I decided to stick with somewhat blurry pictures of book burning, because I wanted people to figure it out themselves. I also did this, because I feel like coming back to this topic again in a future project one, where I can actually spend more time on it. Here are my three 11in x 17in:

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