Category Archives: Expressive Words

The Expressive Words project forced me to be creative in a sense I had never considered previously. Using only the letters of the words and a limited selection of fonts, we had to describe the words’ meaning. First it had … Continue reading →

During the process of doing this project, I tried three main approaches to design the words. Since we can only use the typeface Helvetica, which is very neat and simple, I focus on using spacing, angling and the meaning of … Continue reading →

For this project, the only typeface that was used is Helvetica. I had two approaches for this project. We had a lot of limitations, for this project, therefore, I went to two extreme sides. My first approach was to apply … Continue reading →

For my design approach, the interpretation of each word is based on my perception by using both uppercase and lowercase letters, letter spacing, angles, big and small typefaces, and black and gray tints. For each word, comprehensibility and visibility are … Continue reading →

For this project we used only helvetica. I tried to take two approaches to the project. The first, keep it simple and the second, learn a lot! I attempted at making circles and using the gradients etc. However, I found … Continue reading →

This assignment taught me how to use my imagination, because the tools we had were pretty limited (only one type, one weight of font, one color, no repeating). It really made me think in a different way, and it was … Continue reading →

I used more than one approach for the Seven Types of Contrast assignment. First, I thought about how the words sounded when pronounced. Aspects of words like tones and accents helped me visualize what I wanted to put onto paper. Lastly, I … Continue reading →

For this assignment, I tried to be as creative as possible considering the challenge of only using Helvetica as the typeface.  For me, I really took placement of the words on the page into consideration as well as font size, uppercase or … Continue reading →

My design approach for the assignment is to gain experience to express a word with different design of the word styles, such as designing the word into a wave, curve, reflection, different font size and etc. Besides the design of … Continue reading →

This project was definitely more challenging than I anticipated. I had to think of what would be a great representation of each word, and eventually I was able to express each word in a way I felt was sufficient. My approach … Continue reading →