2050spring2016

I chose the quote i did for a few reasons but i really think its a motivational quote for that being the main reason i chose it.  What i learned most about this assignment was that the placement of the quote really matters with the actual interpretation of the quote.  I knew that i needed find the right background that goes with the quote but initially i didn’t think too much as far as placement of the quote.  I initially put the quote towards the center of the picture wanting to go for a simple look but with feedback i realized i needed to i find the perfect spot for the quote so that its not just random words placed on the photo but so the actual meaning of the quote can translate throughout, along with the appropriate image as the background.

In this project, I learned the importance of simplicity and details. For the quotation project, I started out with a street art image of Banksy called “Shop Till You Drop”. Initially, I wanted to isolate the image of the falling girl, its  shadow, and shopping cart. As I was fixing the image through photoshop, I realized that the image was not a strong representative of the quote I chose. I looked over my other options and came across one photo with an orphaned girl praying. The image struck me for it demonstrated the art of poverty. The street art was perfectly created with the proper color palette, but despite its perfection it represented the struggles of less fortunate children who live in the streets. The contrast between the perfection of the street art and the imperfections of life was appealing to me. For the typeface, I used Baskerville in white and in all caps. I tried to experiment on the quotation by using different colors and placements, but I realized that the I didn’t want the font to distract the image.

At the start of the project, I chose a quote that resonated with me and then looked at key words and chose pictures based off of those words. When trying to decide the placement of the pictures, I paid attention to whether or not the pictures followed a certain direction or not. I also experimented with font color and judged to see if it worked well the meaning of the picture and quote. At the end of this project, I learned that different pictures can affect the interpretation of the quote. In one page, I used Calvin and Hobbes with a Baskerville font for the quote, which I felt brought back memories of reading picture books. In another page, I used a background picture of a road that bled off the pages with the same font family. However, I felt that the second page gave off a more motivational feeling rather than a nostalgic one. Thus, I believe that using a picture can greatly emphasize/change the quote meaning that goes along with it.

Christopher Wong

When sketching ideas , my mind kept going to Peter Pan and using Peter Pan related images. It was hard for me to get away from the idea of using the images that the quote derived directly from. I also realized a lot of the ideas I had were then improved upon once I started transferring ideas from my sketch to inDesign. After the sketches, I liked the one that was the simplest and that didn’t have any images related to Peter Pan. I ended up trying typefaces such as Helvetica and Garamond and in the end used Garamond as my typeface. I tried Helvetica but it did not express the right emotion that the quote was expressing. I also played around with the position of the text as well as which direction the text will be read from.

In this project, I became more comfortable with using inDesign and I am happy to say that I also learned a little of Photoshop as well.

For the quotation assignment, I had to think of a quote that spoke to me on a personal level, and I felt the perfect one would be “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”, stated by Wayne Gretzky. I then had to figure out what to sketch as a representation of this quote, so I decided to focus my sketches on sports, such as basketball, hockey, and dart-throwing. I ended up using one of my sketches for my project by scanning it into the computer, and working around it from there. I used the Baskerville typeface to write out my quote, and I learned how creative you can be with representation of something, such as a quote.

Place your quotation analysis in the category Quotation.