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Expressive Words

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

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Expressive Words

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

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Expressive words

When I started to look at the project, my approach was to try and capture the feeling of the word. I started out by looking at things that I thought embodied the word as well as repeating the word out … Continue reading

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Expressive Words

At first, I felt as if the project was too limited and restrictive considering we couldn’t use colors and different fonts, etc. but as soon as I immersed myself into the work I began to realize that there were many … Continue reading

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Expressive Words JK

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

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Expressive Words

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

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Expressive Words

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

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Expressive Words

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

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Expressive Words

This project was more difficult than I expected. The biggest challenge was we were limited to one typeface “Helvetica” to complete this project. The typeface “Helvetica” can be characterized as neutral, pragmatic, simple and rational of structure. Therefore it was … Continue reading

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Expressive Words

This assignment comprised of many things: fun, easy, and difficult. The fact of having to use only one font ‘Helvetica’ made this a more stimulating project. I spent at the very least 2 hours drafting my sketches, with countless of … Continue reading

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