Inspiration

I was walking to class one morning in the Art & Design building and I saw a man with falling feathers tattooed down his arm. And I thought to myself, "Wow, that is beautiful. That is real art." I sat down to draw out feathers in my sketch book and I ended up drawing a dream catcher. I felt like I had found my light idea. I thank that man with the tattoo for giving me inspiration for my light project. It really does come from anywhere.

Locations

Reflection of the Project

This project was a challenge for me. I am obviously not great with cardboard. However, I learned how to find solutions. I learned not to argue with people. I learned that time is a factor in the creating process. I was not sure how much this project would teach me, but I now know what a location can do for the word. I can now tell someone about fonts and how they can manipulate the way you understand a word. The placement of a word is important. You can not just but disrupt anywhere and have it be disruptive. I felt that the bus stop was the most disruptive.
Deciding on a certain way to manipulate the word was the hardest. We had so many ideas and I felt like I was just overwhelmed. I wanted to stick with just one idea because I knew time was a factor. But we all took our letters and we finished them on time. Well, some of us did. It was really hard to get everyone together because of schedules. I still feel like our project is unfinished.
The solutions I found for my letters was clear tape. I had thicker cardboard and the tabs were hard to create with that thickness, so I used clear tape and I found that it worked pretty well. We had trouble with the inside of our letters. We wanted bright wrapping paper, but we did not buy it in time. Our solution for that problem was paint on the inside. Some letters had painted paper and some had painted cardboard. Through all of this, I have learned that you better talk out your ideas and the constraints that you will have before getting started. Communication is the key to life.

Parts of the Letter

You can change how people understand a word by simply changing how it appears. Knowing the parts of the letter helped my group communicate better. Instead of saying "that thing," we could say "the bracket" or "stroke width." Although there were several terms in this presentation, I walked away with more knowledge than I had before. I did not notice that all the lowercase letters were basically the same height as the "x." The "FedEx" logo was a good example of how to manipulate a word. This presentation helped my group construct letters and to understand what was disruptive. Oh, and applause to Daniel for doing such a good job presenting.

Reflection on the Photo Essay

You can be very creative with a camera. I feel like it is much like a pencil and a  piece a paper. So many things are possible with it. The trick is to take as many photos as you possibly can. There is no such thing as too many photos. You want to keep the photo interesting. Asymmetry, symmetry, repetition, placement of the object, placement of the camera, movement, and framing keep a photo interesting. We needed interesting photos for our photo essay books. Having a balance of all the ways to keep a photo interesting can make a great photo. There was one photo I took in front of the street. At the time I did not notice the bus in the background moving, but I later saw it. The bus was blurred due to its movement, but it was why I choose that photo. That movement made that photo great. It grabbed my attention before any of the other photos I took in that location. These photos helped us convey the meaning of the word. Without the guy blocking the "D" it would not look disruptive. Every type of photography is important. Without photos of our words at the location at that specific time, how would we share the beauty of the moving bus in the background?

Written description of project 3

For this project, we were learning about what language looked like and how the meaning can be conveyed simply by placement or construction of the word. My group's word was "Disrupt." The first part of the project, we printed off our word and using 6x6 inch squares, made word collages. This was to show how manipulating a word changed how you understood it. We made 20 of these word collages. Then we picked a font. We used futura font. Then we made prototypes of the letters. My group made several. We decided on one prototype and mad 36 inch letters. We made these letters out of cardboard. We found a few locations for the placement of our word. My group decided on Budig. We placed the letters there and the class went out to see them. Every group done this. After that, we broke from our group and made individual photo essay books. It included: the title, name, definition, 6 photos of the word on site, and a group photo. It was an accordion fold book.

Letters

Done with the giant letters! The I and U of disrupt are complete. Maybe not as planned...but they are finished. Good luck group "Disrupt!!"