FINAL STATEMENT!

My first time around trying to fit music under the Urban coll um, seemed like a good idea, and it was, but for my first concepts around it wasn't amazing...So after talking with a couple of my other classmates, and conversing with them I decided to take my concept and switch it around in two days...It was difficult but the results came out way better and stronger.

For my approach with the dot composition, type composition, and image selection, I decided on how my dot compositions would look first, I wanted to make sure that every word i had chosen with each composition worked. I still stuck with music, but instead of having such a small selection of Genre's I ended up switching it up to having nine Genres, one for each of the descriptive words I had for each dot composition. Once I had all of my Genre's selected, which would be; Punk, Metal, Grunge, Hip-Hop, RnB, Classic, Reggae, Techno, and Pop music. I decided to match those to each one of my words I have listed below in one of my previous blogs, and From their on I recreated my dot compositions for the book project. I believe they support my concept, because every composition tells a story about that certain Genre of music.

I believe that my book shows to be concise and cohesive artifact, because all of my compositions,are based on one subject and although my subject touches base on different genres of music, it still stays cohesive by sticking with showing the emotions of the different genres of music. I believe also that every page in my booklet, has a very nice composition to it, and I also believe that of every dot composition, they all show a nice color palette, I really tried to stick with a certain set of colors on every page.

What I learned over the course of the project, was Precision! Precision! I definitely didn't realized how precise i had to be with making every dot composition, and every transparency. I don't even remember how many times I had to redo all of my transparencies and my dot compositions, because I knew they were either messy or not working. I am trying to teach myself how become neater about my craft and although this is not as perfect as I so much tried to get it to be, It is one of the best hand crafted I have ever done...hopefully in the next project It will be ten times better.

I would definitely say that what I can improve on, is brainstorming, and craftsmanship. In the beginning of the project I was so lost at first because I didn't know what I was going to do. My mind mapping was okay, but I didn't feel like I picked at my brain as much as I should have and could have. Even though my ideas finally came on the table, it was a little late when they came and had I gotten them right in the first couple of workdays maybe my work would have been done and presented on our first personal critiques better. As far as my craftsmanship goes, because I know where I have been in the beginning of my freshman year and now, I really think its improved a great deal, now I just have to keep that up so it can grow even more to a higher level.

I really enjoyed crafting and putting the project together, when I saw my compositions coming together I really thought about how nice this will look in the end and I was right...I can't wait for the next one....maybe a better outcome.

Project1 Reading Response2

In the reading Graphic Design and the new Basics, Lupton, I enjoyed the reading about layers and transparency. I really never thought about how layers also play a part in time, space, and music, until I read it. With Transparency, its simple, it can be used to show the passing through of another object which also helps to play apart in layering as well so the two share a sort of a relationship. I just thought about how our transparencies will also become a layer on top of our compositions in our book. So both principals play a part in our project and im sure more projects to come.

Project 1 Reading Response1:

In Wong’s book, chapter 9 focuses on Contrast, and how it can strengthen a designer’s visual composition. He shows how different textures can enhance any composition. Whether it is the density of color, shapes, uses of textures…etcetera. Contrasts can be found anywhere. I also noticed in reading about contrast it helped me with my book. I show a decent amount of contrast through my dots….
In Megg’s Type and Image Book, He talks about Designing and transforming images to make them more readable. It’s about being clever at what you do, and how you do it….And one way to accomplish this goal is learning to transform images to make them more responsive by changing certain aspects of the original image. Maybe to create a story behind it.
In the Dondis reading, It focuses on visual techniques…some of these elements used as we learned previously in class are instability, asymmetry, symmetry, and balance, which are used to help design something visually forceful.

Title and Words...

For the Viscom and Type project here are my nine words for my music theme:

• Burst
• Release
• Tension
• Diverse
• Attached
• Descend
• Balance
• Clutter
• Reject

My title so far will be.... "The Playlist: From Roudy to Rough to Smooth Soul"

Fianlly My Letter K

Here are my final pics for my Letter K. I feel like im going to redo the K with the cut out labeling. I think it will look even nicer in a phase two sorta thing...:)

F+S

I came across this image on google, and I really enjoyed looking at it.

I really think that this image gives a good example of showing alignment. When looking at how each section of the text are lined up on one another. It also looks as if the alignment of the text should be read from the right instead of the left, so I like how this image also plays with our eyes a little. I think this image is also showing an example of how going beyond the frame. The text or the numbers at the top of the poster, make a person want to know whats going on past the poster. I really dug this poster especially how the numbers and the text, because of their positions on the composition, they give off the illusion, as if we are looking at it from an aerial view...

Super cool...

Project 1...

Sooo I went through all of the umbrella words that were given in VISCOM, buuuuuuut the only one I really seemed to like was Urbanism so I have planned on using Urban Music for my book...this will be fun fun fun!

• Beat
• Rythem
• Soul
• Smooth
• Rough
• Hiphop
• RnB
• Disk Jockey
• Industry
• Sexy
• Collaborating
• Record
• Neo-Soul
• Mixin'
• Attitude
• Phresh(Fresh)=New
• Award
• Old School
• Dedication
• Jazz

I really hope that i can pull this off sucessfuly...what a challenge I'm still thinking of other words i can use this is just a start :)