Thursday 21st of October 2010

For the new project we were told to print 12 pages of the word that we chose (in my case "connect") and we had to use all of the words printed in slightly different sizes in black and in white on black and on white background for our 20 draft word collages.


So we spent the whole time in class cutting, pasting and re-ordering our words in different ways.

It was actually pretty fun..or at least I enjoyed doing all of mine in class for about 3 hours and then discovering what others did with their chosen word through a critique towards the end of the class.
That was quite interesting too. Some had really good ideas.

Here are some of mine that I came up with:

IV. What language looks like

So we're starting on the next project already.

The word I chose from the list is CONNECT.

Definitions:

–verb (used with object)

1. to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.

2. to establish communication between; put in communication: Operator, will you please connect me with Mr. Jones?

3. to have as an accompanying or associated feature: pleasures connected with music.

4. to cause to be associated, as in a personal or business relationship: to connect oneself with a group of like-minded persons; Our bank is connected with major foreign banks.

5. to associate mentally or emotionally: She connects all telegrams with bad news.

6. to link to an electrical or communications system; hook up: to connect a telephone.

–verb (used without object)

7. to become connected; join or unite: These two parts connect at the sides.

8. (of trains, buses, etc.) to run so as to make connections (often fol. by with ): This bus connects with a northbound bus.

9. Informal . to have or establish successful communication; make contact: I connected with two new clients today.

10. Informal . to relate to or be in harmony with another person, one's work, etc.: We knew each other well but never connected.

11. Slang . (of an addict or drug dealer) to make direct contact for the illegal sale or purchase of narcotics.

12.Sports . to hit successfully or solidly: The batter connected for a home run. The boxer connected with a right.

– adjective

13. of or pertaining to a connection or connections: connect charges for a new cable television channel.

The END of project# 2...

After everybody had to do their refinements on Photoshop and/or Illustrator, we had to print each and every one of the different 16 representations/drawings into 8,5 by 11 inch paper then cut them out in 6x6 inch squares and tape them all together to form a 16x16 inch square (from the most realistic representation in the upper left corner to the most abstract one in the lower right corner)  that would look like our final printed version.

My "poster"

We spent the whole class doing critiques of each of our classmates' images, and I think that was very interesting and helpful, because it gave new options and interesting points of views from different people that one person would have never thought of for example or tried but failed to succeed in, so I think it was just a small sort of boost for each person, so they get motivated to refine more their images to be better, as best as they could possibly refine it, so that their overall production would be really impressive, and so that they can feel proud of it.

I noticed that I had a lot of refining to do, concerning the typographic and gestural methods for example, and I worked on them and thankfully made them better than they originally were, and I also had to rethink about the order I placed my images in.

And the refined representations for the gestural and typographic one are pictured below : I really like them ;)

Final steps...

So we had to finsih up everything in class and at home so we can bring the final printed drawing for each method on Tuesday, so we can visualize how they all would look like put altogether to determine how they would really look like once put in the grid and printed all at once for the project.






It's really hard especially if you don't know how to manipulate Illustrator!!

oh well..off to work now..got a lot of things to do

Tuesday 10/05/2010 & Thursday 10/07/10

We spent these last 2 classes finishing up drawings and trying (mostly through critiques) to determine which drawing of each method that we did is to refine on Illustrator (or just kept and scanned) and talk about how we should finish up the drawings to be adjusted, so we can move on and start on our grid design and then board.