Assignment 1 (b): Copying Type

Assignment:
 Copy script typeface from label using Illustrator. Then find "default" type in Adobe. Use both to assemble a mock label for a new "flavor" of product. Colors in type MATTER. Attempt to replicate type as best as possible.

Product Photos & Notes:

 

Label from bottle ripped...Very difficult to remove labels cleanly.

Photos of other flavors

Pictures found on Google.

Notable differences in the coloration of the sun in logo. Scanned label's "sun" is primarily orange with yellow accent. Perhaps alter coloration of sun to match one of the other labels? I.e: Primarily yellow or red?

Final Photos:

Hm...roomate ate quite a bite of the salsa and the cold bottle made adhesion difficult. Let's try this again with a new, room temperature bottle.

Much better...and of course, I should include some the of the infamous chips used to consume the previous bottle of salsa.

Final Thoughts:

Through experimenting with the Pen and Line Width tool, I discovered that my chosen font was best replicated using shapes instead of single lines. When applying the gradient to the word 'Pace', this feeling was further cemented when difficulties occurred involving the "lines" but not the "shapes". A great majority of the label was recreated through use of the pen tool. Also, the filters played a strong role primarily when it came to adding the secondary typeface that came default in Illustrator. The phrase "Restaurant Style Salsa" needed to be clip-masked with a distorting image in order to give it a roughened appearance.

Assignment1 (a): Sample Typography

Assignment:
Find and photograph examples of "scrip font" used on packaging to recreate using hand sketches and Adobe Illustrator.

Samples:

Sketches

My project inspired sketches...

Masked Identity

Paper Stacked Fruit 

Invented Stacked Paper Form

Soap Sculpture

Gregor's Room

Memento

Balsa Wood Sculptures

3D to 2D

 Assignment:
Take photos of all the work you completed for this class. Select an image(s) to use for this assignment.  Manipulate an image(s), to create an entirely new image. Post the final solution on your Design II blog.  You do not have to print out the image.  The post is due during final exam day and time.

DO NOT use a documentation photo of your work.  The image has to be manipulated (either on the computer or by hand and then scanned in).  The final solution does not have to represent the original sculpture.

You can manipulate image(s) any way you choose. You can use photoshop, add music, add movement with animation of video. Other options don't involve the computer. For instance, you can cut and paste by hand, draw on image(s), incorporate sewing or paper cutting techniques. You can then scan the image and post the scan on your blog.



Final Image:

 

Inventory/On Tokens Response & On Longing Quotes

On Longing:
"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale."
"Capacity of objects serve as traces of authentic experience."
"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, the 3-demensinal into the miniature that which can be enveloped by the body.
"Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss."
"To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy"

Tokens Response:
Tokens was quite heartbreaking. To read about children being given up by mothers and left with tokens--mementos--and the promise of return...often without return...it was saddening. The tokens varied in size, shape and purpose. But all held meaning. All held memories. All held promise. But often, the promise laid broken, the children leaving the hospital at which their mother's abandoned them. It is amazing how much meaning can be held by a small object, but if one does not know the meaning, does its worth diminish? If one holds one half of a shared locket, no knowledge of who holds the other but aware of its existence, does the meaning still remain? Tokens brings all these things in question and reveals the solemn value of mementos to those often without the memory of their significance.

Memento

Assignment:

-Make a non-representational sculpture of a memory. For example, a person, place or event. Use no more than three materials.  You may deconstruct and manipulate materials.You can use the same material repeatedly.

-Be aware of the materials you select, methods used to construct and the juxtaposition of the materials. For instance, is it significant for you to weld, stitch, weave or tie any of the materials?

-Remember you are working in three-dimension so be sure to take the time to walk around your piece and/or work on a banning wheel so you can turn piece while working.

-Final solution should be able to fit in the palms of your hands (or two hands).

-****Important - Do not replicate an object. Rather, use elements and principles of design to communicate and/or symbolize the memory.

-Consider line direction. Is your memory taller than you? Could stacking or a tower like construction communicate height? Vast, therefore allowing for a horizontal presentation. Is the landscape (if you have one) of your memory closed in? Open with no boundaries?

Objective:

Gain an awareness of how materials, processes and the elements and principles of art and design can be used to visually communicate significant meaning.

Memento Notes:
Mementos are tangible memories. Sometimes we are not sure why we keep things but they hold memories all the same. They are a constant reminder of a place we saw or a person we knew or feelings we felt. They keep the dead tangible for we fear to forget them. They collect memories or hold emotions. And sometimes, we need to let them go.

Complete: