I See What U Mean (Part 1)

The last project before X mas is about Typography. It is a 2 weeks project which at the start we all thought it is gonna be a very long dull weeks.... This is because it sounds really boring.

1st of all, we all get given some different word type sheets. We need to design 50 different designs from a phrase of out "favourite" poem. The hardest bit is we not allow to use any colour except black and white..... another difficult task but we just have to get on with it@@!!

Eventually I finish but I haven't done 50...... only got to 30 but I'm sure none of us did really get to 50 anyway~~~~ lol Here is the overview of all my designs:

Then we been told to choose 2 to develop onwards to make them a better design. Therefore I chose the top 2 on the right hand side. We been told that now we allow to use colours and we can do all sorts of things to make it stands out more. We can print it in A0 sheet if we really want to@@. However, because it is a really short notice that we can enlarge it as big as we want, I didn't manage to find a place that I can print out as big as A2 or A1.... So I only managed to print them in A3.... I think it still looks great, tho I think it will be much better if it is at least an A1 size~~~ oh well, anyway,, Here it is below this paragraph;)

I'm gonna talk about the left hand side one 1st. It is designed like this is because I was influence by Neville Brody. It is how he uses the red and how he attach the words together inspired me. So I used the idea of letters attaching to and letters to create a "repetitive sound" within the paper to make typography really interesting!! But because the positions of the words "can" "say" in the 1st design (the design on the top right corner of the 1st image) is not working well. So I scan them 2 the computer and photoshop it to clean up the bits that i don't want, just like the 1 below (left). 

After that I move the chain of "O" slightly to the left then scan in to clean up the bits that I over drew. The outcome of that is the image below.



Carry on, I drew the "O" chain that curving left to right is to suggest the transition when you are speaking that out loud. But then I find out that I should've start the "O" chain with a "o" (little) 1st because the letter "h" and big "O" (Big) don't fit in well together. Therefore photoshop it and scan ........ so on.

After I set the "base form" of the typography design, I started to experiment how to fit in the other words in from the phrase by cutting the letters and sticking them down on the design. Firstly, I chose to ignore the 2nd part of the phrase- "It is silent now." because it got no room to fit in this design and is no point forcing or otherwise the whole composition will go horribly wrong. Therefore finally, the 3 images below are my last designs for this part of the project and I chose the one with only the Little red "?" at the end.

I chose that is because the word "Who" is really dramatic on the sheet already. So the words"can" and "say" needed to be subtle in order to gain balance within the design. Therefore is pretty much small but sharp. If it is all in red, it will be too sharp. As a result, the only way is colouring the question mark in red. Cconsequently, it's not just bringing those 2 words out but also alerting the audience and urging them to think about whats the Question really asking.

I really enjoy doing typography and I didn't find it dull at all after all these hard workXD. But I wish I can print the finally 2 designs in a bigger version so I'll do that asap when I can find a massive printer. I'll talk about the final part of the project asap as well;)