By Xinran Zhao

This is a challenging assignment to me. It takes me more than three hours to work on it. At the first time, I had no idea what to do with the assignment, I simply placed the quotation on the top of the picture, and applied what I learned from this class so far, mixed upper and lower case letters, changed directions and colors of the words. However, I didn’t focus on the purpose of this assignment, which is to enhance the quotation. As a result, I got a very unsuccessful draft. The quotation on my picture was hard to see because I made the words black which is similar to the very dark background. During the critique, I saw a lot of excellent works from my classmates. I was a little bit upset because mine was not good enough, but at the same time I paid attention to how my classmates related their pictures to their quotations. Then I thought carefully how to make changes to my assignment. This time I came up with new idea. First, I noticed that the background of my picture is dark and complicated, it’s hard to catch people’s attention if I simply placed the quotation on my picture no matter what color of typefaces I use. Therefore, I made a pure black bar at the corner of the picture and put the quotation in the bar. By doing this, the quotation was obvious to see since the background is simple. Besides that, I changed each letter to bright color, yellow; and I used complementary color, green on some of the words which I think is important to enhance the quotation. I also enlarged the words that I want people to pay attention to. I chose Bodoni as my typeface because I feel like my quotation is easy to read with it. I like this assignment since I know more about graphic design by doing it.