Santiago Vinasco

This project was challenging to me because I was over-designing in the beginning. I thought I was doing okay… I started with a simple bled image of butterflies and placed the quote in the clear space in the image. But I thought it was too simple. So I added two other images that I thought would get my point across. I wanted the viewer to notice the symmetry inherent in nature. But I added too many images with too many design elements in the text. It looked cluttered and complicated. I wanted more subtlety but that’s just not what I was getting. I decided to choose the image of the honeycombs because I could put the words in the quote inside the honeycombs and play on the word “deep” and “nature”. Finally I had a design that was simple yet unordinary. I liked that i put each letter in the word “nature” in its own honeycomb to highlight it’s importance.

Critiquing my work now there are some things I should change. Very subtle but substantial changes. I had two lines that weren’t spaced apart from each other the same distance as the other lines. Also, the text was hard to read as it was kind of small. I chose a small type size because the longer words would not fit comfortably in the honeycomb. I still should of resolved the problem by perhaps going .5 or even .25 bigger. I also should of made “nature” bold so it really stands out. The lesson that I learned is this– just like an essay in English class, a graphic work must also be revised and revised and revised.