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In the learning activity Expressing meaning we were to create three different compositions, of three different words. Useing typography to express their meaning. Two words could be picked from a list of 10 different words. The third word is a word that I have made up myself.
I chose the words distortion and migration from the list of words. Migration since it is a part of everything. Movement of large groups of people have been part of our history from the beginning. The migration of birds have also fascinated me since I’m from a place where most of the birds migrate thousands of kilometers each winter, and return in spring. I chose distortion because I thought it would be fun to see what one could do in Adobe Illustrator to distort and image.
DISTORTION
I chose the font Acumin pro. The font has many variations and i chose to use 3 different variations of the same font for my final artwork.
Sketches, ideas and one photo
Link to final artwork in A4 format: DISTORTION
MIGRATION
For the word migration I had an idea early that I wold like to show the movement of people and birds. However I ended with two different compositions one for people and one for birds. The sketches and print screen pictures in the slide show how I worked with both the different ideas.
The final composition I thought was best you will find here: Migration
OPALIH
Opalih is my own word. It is put together by the words Opaque meaning dense, heavy or not transparent, and light, as in light weight. It means heavy becoming lighter. Its the process of losing weight when changing form. Its is what happens before the visible transformation, like for example when water evaporates. The dense and heavy becomeing lighter, that is Opalih.
Scketches
Inspired by Ina Saltz Lynda course chose to use one of the fonts that she mentions early in the course Bicham Script pro. She talks about the different variations of lower case h. Since Opalih ends with h I thouht an elegant and light h with lots of swirls would be perfect to show the lightness at the end of the process and also the word Opalih.
Final composition in A4 format: Opalih
My reflective journal 