project one

Futura Gs from part 2 

The Futura font has an element of perfectness to it, coming from its mechanical and geometric connotations. This perfectness is seen in many of the letters - the lowercase a contains a perfect circle and so on - so when one looks at a letter, the connotation built into the typeface automatically makes you think the letter is likely perfect. However, upon closer inspection, one can discover that this isn't always the case. The G, which looks like a perfect circle with a cut and terminal added, is not made out of a perfect circle. The shape is slightly asymmetrical. In this part of the project, I chose to fix this, but also comment on the idea of something being perfect. I aimed to be as precise as possible with the making of the first G. After cutting that one out, I traced it six times for six more G's and used three of the negatives. They were then placed on the wall in a geometric-esque shape, in line with the geometric form of Futura. However, because of human nature, these G's aren't actually perfect. It's impossible to achieve with the hand. At a first glance, any given G might look perfect, but upon closer inspection, none of them are, just as the original Futura G.

For the final part of the project, I decided to use the uppercase G again, to name parts of the letter. Still using the idea of the font being 'perfect' but not actually being able to achieve that quality, I made a G using the same process I did for the first G on part two. Therefore, the G is slightly altered from what the actual Futura G letterform is, but not so much in a way that it becomes unrecognizable in its anatomy. To label each part, I traced the part name from my laptop screen, from words set in the Futura typeface. After tracing an outline, they were filled in with black Sharpie marker. Finally, they were cut out using a straight-edge and xacto knife, and place on the wall in position corresponding to the G.

I wanted to continue the idea of perfectness can be a thought, but in reality, is never achievable in this portion of the project. There is a precision to the making of each part of the piece, but there is a human quality about each part that gives away the imperfections, which is something that I find enjoyable.

gestalt

In order: 4 definitions for the various forms of gestalt, 12 photos, separated by gestalt form; 20 compositions, separated by gestalt form.

Closure - the term given to the phenomena when the mind completes a missing series or image by using knowledge and observations already made.

Continuance - the nature of something to lead off the edge of a frame, causing the eye and reader to move with it.

Proximity - similar items grouped near each other have a relationship.

Similarity - items that share similar texture, shape, color, etc.

All of the photos were taken on my iPhone at some point.

Closure

Continuance

Proximity

Similarity

My compositions were created in InDesign. I used brown butcher paper to cut out different shapes that I used to create each composition. I used Photoshop to convert everything, compositions and photos, to grayscale tifs.

Closure

 


 

Continuance

 
 

Proximity

 

 
 

Similarity

letters

Futura

Bodoni, day and night views

Clarendon

Futura deals with the idea of perfection and human error. 

Bodoni was inspired by connotations dealing with the fashion and modeling and Vogue world.

Clarendon is an example of boldness and attention.

cause sometimes you need a break

http://www.buzzfeed.com/shittywatercolour/celebrities-as-sloths

giant g

Progress on letter forms -

The Bodoni g is being cutout twice, once in brown and once in white, and combined to achieve the desired affect. The Clarendon G is painted with black acrylic in an attempt to make the black as bold and black as possible. Paint seemed like the best out of pencil, charcoal, and paint.

Futura will happen soon. No worries. That's what I'm telling myself.

color palettes

Finaled color palettes for class. These were fun.

All three pictures were taken by me at some point. I picked the Pantone colors in Illustrator to start out, creating the boxes and placing the photo. I copied and pasted everything into an InDesign document to finish out the palettes. I find it easier to make things in InDesign and you still have the capabilities of changing the output to RGB or CMYK just like how we were shown in Illustrator. 

gestalt work

Just some process on making the gestalt compositions and photo taking. I decided upon using 5 shapes to make compositions. They are just brown butcher paper shapes, each one roughly 4 inches wide and 4 inches tall, except for the rectangle - it's 8 inches tall - and triangle - it's about 2 inches tall.

The photos were all taken on my iPhone at some point in time, most of them this weekend during a moving experience. This one is of a sunset that happened a month ago, though.

 There is one example of a composition using the shapes. Similar squares shows similarity. Go gestalt.