Thursday, October 14, 2010

Type Assignment

I tried many different typefaces but I chose to use the same one throughout the entire assignment because I wanted all five of my pieces to flow together.  The “engravers” font I used has strong serifs on each letter which I felt was much more appealing with all the different ways I merged the letters together.  It seemed like the sans serif fonts just got lost and didn’t even look like letters after manipulating them a bit.  The Engravers font was classic like James Dean which was my theme of this assignment.

The five letters I chose were not random at all.  I started out with the letter “D” because that is my favorite letter.  I have always felt the letter “D” and names starting with “D” are very masculine and strong sounding.  I decided to use James Dean’s initials/name for the other letters because he is one of my favorite actors and I also have a tattoo of him on my foot.  The letters I chose are J. Dean.

I like all 5 of my compositions as a whole because they are each unique but still flow together nicely.  But I have to say my favorites are both the pieces with James Dean pictures in them.  The other more basic ones I did kind of bore me but I didn’t want to overdo it by putting photographs in every single one.  I am very big on the idea of “less is more” so it is easy for me to decide when a piece of art is done because I don’t let it become overdone.  I feel the same way about art, fashion, and home décor.  I never want to do too much.  I like to keep it classy and chic.  If you overdue it things start to look as if you are trying too hard.








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