Moving Towards the End of Part 2

Our last project in part 2 of our course was on facts. Everyone has a unique tongue print. I didn't know that, nor did I know that bubblegum has actual rubber. All the facts that people found were amazing; and even more than the facts itself, the outcomes of everyone were really good, considering that we had less than one week. My fact was the one about the tongue. I played around with the idea of replacing the finger print with the tongue print to the tongue being able to define a person's identity.

To come to think of it, I've enjoyed all the vis com projects so far. At times it was hard and challenging, but looking at the entire picture, there was never a time when I wanted to give up. I worked hard and always enjoyed the results. As Thomas Edison said, 'Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration'.

Sheep, Sheep and more Sheep

Our animals project was a two week research project, and all I did then was go on about sheep.There is just so much about them, everywhere! They are in religion, brand names, cartoon shows, zodiac signs; the list just goes on and on... The thing that I learnt from this project (besides information on sheep) was experimenting on a variety of ideas, whether or not you think it will look good as a final piece. Also, using picture collages to help communicating an idea. At the end of these enriching two weeks, I felt that I could do even more work had I had the time. Nevertheless, I was happy with my final result which showed the following fact, ' When Woodrow Wilson was President of the United States of America, the First Lady kept sheep on the White House lawns to keep it neatly trimmed'.

Book arts to Building a Type Machine

The first thing that would have come to my mind when I thought of book arts would be designing a book cover or illustrating a few of its pages. I would have never imagined that I would actually create them from scratch; use different concepts and make 'out of the box' books which challenge the concept of a traditional book.
For my book arts project I made a ' slow book', a 'book that gets bigger' and an 'endless book'. I like all three of them , but I feel that the last one is the most interesting. It is a very delicate book. Its modeled on a credit card being like a magic wand. Its very tempting to use it, but if you overspend then you get broke. If the book isn't handled properly then it'll break

Moving on to, quite literally, building a type machine. I have to say, I was a bit nervous about this one,having never, well, built a proper machine before. But it turned out to be one of the most fun and interesting project.We collected a load of junk and then created the machine out of it. The most interesting part of it was figuring out how to make a working mechanism from a variety of things. Also, it was amazing to discover the inside of an old television by dismantling it.

Typography

I absolutely loved this project. I think it was because I enjoyed matching the typeface to the words...letting the typeface describe the words. I experimented with which typeface suited the words which I had and also the composition of the words within a frame. I think the fact that it was hand rendered and done on layout paper gave it far wider possibilities.
I also used this way of 'type matching' for a word that I had invented in the 30 things to do project. 

These are two lines from Robert Frost's poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'.

I have tried to 'express their sense using pure typography'

 

 

Lists

For this project we had to create a visual list that communicated our subject in an 'entertaining and informative way'. I chose to do mine on procrastination. Its actually kind of a problem, but my final piece was on a lighter note. I made an approximately twenty feet time line showing a day in the life of a procrastinator. It took a long time to complete, but the result was definitely worth it. This is one of my favourite works. I think it was largest thing I had ever made; and the size together with the usage of string (showing continuity) succeeded in giving the impact of procrastination being a thing that just goes on and on.

The day begins at 8:00 and goes on till 00:00. This is the first of about ten sections..

For our Final Major Project, we have to keep a reflective journal. I enjoyed reflecting so much on the work I've done so far and the progress I have made, that I've decided to write a couple of things about them. The way that I work now has changed so much. I take an active interest in making a fun and well researched sketchbook, and I am experimenting much more with different ideas.

Our first project in Visual communications was on doing 30 different things. Though I was blank as to what to do for a couple of them, I enjoyed and succeeded in completing a majority of the tasks. I especially liked a couple of them such as carrots make your hair curl and dressing up as someone else.