words and the meaning

I changed the size of each individual letter along with the thickness of their lines. the placement was changed to horizontal and overlapped. the font was changed to myriad pro. it quite literally is white on black.

the word quiet is a soft gray with a thin fill. it is located in the lower corner. the background is a soft color and the composition was designed to be a bedroom since nighttime is quiet. the round circles floating was a Q that had the 3-D effect on it. The I for the bed has a pattern swatch applied that gives it subtle texture.

this is loud due to the rather large size of the word and having it extend past the screen. the background is like a spotlight which is rather exciting and focused. there are three loud's overlapped, one is black, one is yellow with a gradient outline and the third is black and has a 20% opacity. the font was changed and distorted.

Active is used to create a spiral. the words font was changed and made bold. the size was slightly larger but the circle it was attached to changes sizes. each circle was individually resized and rotated to create this spiral effect. the center is off center which changes the composition. the word also has two different colors.this is active because it is forever spinning.

This is my own typography I made using blue paint and a sponge. I wanted to create a scratchy affect so i used little paint and an old sponge edge. I focused the darker blues on the circular areas to create a depth.There is also a little light blue chalk overlaying some of the blue paint.

it is time

two old men eating soup

two old men

I really like these three pieces by Keetra Dean Dixon. I like how they are words with meaning and often hide other words. I like how she made something so cool out of such a simple idea, like 'Love Sick'.

picture of 120 second homework check

Final Book

This is my cover page titled: uncertainty. The intertwined colored lines create a feeling of uncertainty for the cover which represents the following pages.

My first page of the book has an emphasis of a galaxy in the right hand corner. Space, in general, is a place humanity does not have a lot of knowledge on. We enjoy exploring it because it continues to surprise us. In my work, I made it portray uncertainty by leaving a sense of questioning, as to what the planet could be, where does the galaxy go, whose satellite does that belong to?

This next piece represents a city. My emphasis is the eye in the upper center of the page. I wanted to symbolize how we live in the world. Do we really know whats going on right outside our homes? Is there something larger controlling us? Maybe even a different world? By having this "eye" with a watercolor-esc reflection of a city on the bottom I created a world where you do not know what is occurring. 

In the upper left hand corner, you see some swirls in front of a dotted circle. My emphasis is where he black meets the white just under the circle. The reason this page relates to the theme of uncertainty is because the swirling lines and negative spaces leaves you questioning what they represent. If it has a deeper meaning than one would immediately see. I believe that the intersecting lines and words of the background with a contrast of white makes the viewer curious if the words within mean something to the piece.

My last picture is more simple. The emphasis is the "Y" on the bottom, but really I want the eyes to trail from the top of the page right to the bottom. This piece truly makes you question what the words represent. "Thirty six thousand seventy feet." I based this off of the depth of the Mariana's Trench, the deepest part of the ocean. We know next to nothing about our worlds oceans. I wanted to play upon this fact by giving some incite to a really amazing part of nature, making one curious to learn more.