Type in the enviroment

At first I have to admit I was dreading this assignment. I thought I was going to have a hard time finding these fonts, but as I began looking for them I realized it was going to be easier than I originally thought. Here are some of my findings:

Words and images for Project 3 (Typography)

Here are some of the words I came up with for the letter 'G':

Gold
Gorilla
Glue
Glove
Grass
Grey
Glass
Ground
Green
Gradient
Gravel
Graph
Grid
Giraffe
Gun
Grain
Gasoline
Grit
Garden
Gutter

Initially I thought to use gun and gasoline as combustion, or war, but since war was my theme for our last project I decided I should go another direction. I thought of poaching with giraffe and gun, but I thought that was too close to the example given in class. After more thinking and gathering images and textures I narrowed it down to 'Rough' with grit and gravel, and 'baseball' with glove and grass. Since I am a baseball fan and the season is nearing its end, I think I'm going to go with baseball. I snapped some photos of my own glove and found some high quality images on the web of some grass with chalk lines to represent the foul lines (free stock images). Here is what I have:



I will crop the goal, and the white background out of the images and use straight lines for my composition.

G's up

These are my 8 compositions for the letter G. I will be re-creating the two with the most yellow dots.

I brought in a basketball and I have left it sit at my desk, so if anyone would like to use the basketball goal that is out back of the studio they are more than welcome to.

I started with history, and after the mind-mapping process I ended up with war. I chose 9 words that I thought fit with the theme. (Power, Combat, Genocide, Airstrike, Death, Freedom, Allies, Difference, and Disaster.) Some of the words were easier than others to convey, I had a lot of trouble coming up with ideas for the word death especially.

After the initial sketching process, I felt that I was really on the right track as far as my dot compositions were concerned. The type I think was a little bit more difficult.

Throughout this project I have learned that images in the project are only part of the overall composition. Placement of those images, and placement of text also greatly impact your overall message.

I think I could improve on my craft.

My Type Comps

"t" (typography 1)

"K" (typography 1)

Pro 1c. (vis com 1)

I have decided to go with History, and from history my theme will be WAR. The 9 words I have chosen are:

Disaster
Freedom
Genocide
Power
Difference
Combat
Death
Allies
Airstrike