promoting the artist: content

Since I am focusing my thesis on wildlife/natural science illustration, I chose a variety of adjectives and typefaces that I believe represent different aspects of my illustration work. I am mostly leaning towards combining typefaces that help to evoke the idea of technical and organic elements coexisting and complimenting one another.

typographic metaphor: final video

video footage demonstrating the effects of lighting on our typographic metaphor installation.
(footage recorded by me, final video made by Yoojin)

2.2 typographic metaphor (progress)

after finding a suitable location, we started this project by planning out where the spotlight and the shadows of our letterforms would be positioned.

we determined that in order to cast shadows the size of the letters on the sheets of paper, the foam board cut outs would need to be about 2/3rds their size.

 we also had to compensate for the angle of the lighting by skewing the foam board letters so that the shadows would appear properly aligned.

we used one large sheet of foam board to mount the cut-out letters, and then pinned the board to the correct position on the wall. the final result is that the word "penumbra" is represented in the form of a shadow.

midterm review

- how do you think you are doing overall?

I feel that I am doing a decent job of keeping up with the class, I try my best to stay involved and find creative solutions for our projects, and I feel like I have gained a better understanding of type within the first half of the semester.

- where do you think you are struggling? succeeding?

I have been struggling a bit with the blogging aspect of the class (I really only post when necessary). I admit this is because my attention often goes to focusing on my other classes (thesis, art history, my mentorship etc.), which I feel require more time and energy. As I mentioned before, I do feel that I have at least succeeded in finding creative solutions for the projects we have been given so far.

- what are your goals for the rest of the semester?

I plan to read more from our textbook (outside of the required chapters) to supplement my overall learning experience, I will try to devote more time to working on assignments, and I will try to become more involved in class discussions & critiques.