Since we weren't given the actual assignment I decided to make two moodboards. Giraffes are usually associated with tall noble creatures, or in many cases silly and fun animals that are fun to make into patterns, toys, cartoons, etc.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
illustrator logos
animal images
A giraffe, otherwise known as Giraffa camelopardalis, can be found living in primarily dry savannahs and open woodlands.They typically eat acacia leaves (up to 75 pounds a day!) which also provide most of their water intake as well. Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world and are typically known because of their long necks which are actually too short to enable their heads to reach the ground. They have to spread their legs awkwardly in order to reach water from the ground. Giraffes feed for 16-20 hours a day and have the largest heart of any mammal which beats up to 170 times/minute. It is measured at about 2 feet long and weighs around 25 pounds. Scientists have to be careful when they capture wild giraffes that they don't run them too hard, or else they will suffer from a heart attack due to their extremely high blood pressure.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
7 images
Image 1.
Alleviate means to make easier to endure, to lessen, or mitigate. These images relate to each other because the "guilty" person on the right is trying to alleviate that guilt injuring themselves and etching guilt into their wrist. The image on the left is metaphorically the monster, pain, or guilt in side that they feel which is being alleviated as they cut themselves and diminishing into the air. The typeface responds to both of these images and metaphors by leaning towards the wrist, as if it is being blown by the part of the monster that is blowing. It also relates because each letter is separated, alleviating it from being bound to the rest of the letters.
Image 2.
The three images relate to each other because they show the two different sides of guilt. Guilt is the central image, the other two are both being sucked into the guilt from the outside. The image on the left is the burden that guilt bestows on the person who is suffering from it. It is showing the monster that you can become when you hold such a burden inside. The image on the right shows the relief that you can have if you let the guilt go or face it and overcome it.
Image 3.
Alleviate means to make easier to endure, to lessen, or mitigate. The image on the right is of the word "guilt" being written or etched into a person's wrist. I interpret this to be symbolic of someone cutting themselves because they are burdened by guilt and not able to handle it. The image on the left is the alleviation from the guilt once the person overcomes it or faces it. They are free and the guilt is blowing away. The word in the center relates to the images because it is leaning away from the guilt and towards the right picture, as if saying "you will be alleviated if you just face and overcome your pain".
Image 4.
Hypnogogic means to dream or to be in a dreamlike state. The image on the left is a monster being sucked or blown out of its frame. The image on the right is a wrist with the word guilt written on it or etched into in. These images related to each other because the image on the left can be the monster inside of this person who is guilty. The guilt written wrist plays off of people who cut their wrists because they are disturbed, guilty, or depressed and need to be relieved from that pain. The image on the left being sucked out of its frame could symbolize the relief that guilty person gets from hurting themselves. The type in the middle flows, connecting it with the image of the monster. The two bold letts, "n" and "g" are dripping blood which connects the word with the image on the right as well.
Image 5.
Hypnogogic means to dream or be in a dreamlike state. The image on the left is of a wrist with the word "guilt" inscribed on it. The image on the right is of a woman smelling a rose and seemingly escaping to her happy place. I interpret the image-word relationship to mean that this guilty person is dreaming of what life could be like if they weren't burdened by the pain of guilt. It can also be interpreted the opposite way of this person trying to escape into a dream world but being overcome by guilt in the process. The word hypnogogic is very airy and relates to the image on the right by seemingly blowing, and to the image on the left by seemingly bleeding. It is mirrored showing the two opposing dream-states of the painful guilt and the relieving rose.
Image 6.
Alleviate means to make easier to endure, to lessen, or mitigate. The word relates to each image because the faces are blowing away, being alleviated from the solid form that they were. The woman on the right is being alleviated from the monster that lives inside of her (the image on the left. By smelling the rose and letting her mind escape. The typeface I chose for alleviate is very airy and carefree. I chose to kern the letters out so that they were no longer toucher, alleviating them from being attached to one another.
Image 7.
Hypnogogic means "resembling a dream" or dreamlike. I thought that these surreal images both portrayed a dreamlike state. I chose these two images because they look like the reflection of the same dream in a good and bad context. The image on the left is the bad dream and the image on the right is the good dream. I also chose these two pictures because they aesthetically balance one another. There is a strong dark emphasis in the bottom righthand corner of the right image, and a strong dark emphasis in the top lefthand corner of the left image. I intertwined the actual word "hypnogogic" to its reflection to show the relationship between the good and evil images.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Final word-image
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
juxtaposition images
Chimera- A horrible or unreal creature from the imagination. I chose these images because they both portray terrifying monsters that are scary in their own way. The one on the left is looking at you which is intimidating and the one on the right has fangs and is distorted. I turned the "I" in the word chimera into a slash or dagger so as to make the image scarier.
Hynogogic- Vivid perceptual experiences occurring at sleep. I chose these images because they are both surreal and imaginative. They look dreamlike or like they derived from the subconscious mind. I chose to flip and mirror the word to make it seem like more of a play on the subconcious. It symbolizes reality from the unreal. I changed a couple of the letters within the word to different typefaces to make it more dreamlike and attract an emphasis to the center of the page.
Elude- To avoid or escape. The image on the right shows a woman smelling a rose and her mind escaping. This is symbolic of escaping into her own imagination. The picture on the right shows a serene place in which one could go to escape or avoid something, or to simply be alone and at peace. I chose to make the letters in the word look as though they were escaping by falling off.
incongruous- Ridiculous, absurd, out of place. The image on the left already had censor marks across the man's body. I chose to include them in the picture on the right as well so as to balance out the images. These pictures are both absurd and inappropriate because these people are naked in public. I split the word up into 2 parts to play off the whole "out of place" definition because the 2nd half of the word is literally out of place.
muse- To meditate on; to dream. I chose the picture on the left because the woman looks at peace and as if she is still pursuing her dreams even at her old age. She seems as thought doing ceramics is meditative to her. The picture on the right is surreal and dreamy and seems as though the woman is lost fantasizing in her own dream world. I chose the typeface because it seemed calming and dreamy to me. I chose to add an ellipse at the end as if to say that there really is no end to muse.
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