Typography, 2nd Assignment, Part 3: Chosen Drafts and Polished Final (Finished, Refined, and Digitalized)

The third and final part of the second project is now complete. There are two large rectangular boxes, both 8" x 10" each, that illustrate the heading and body texts/paragraphs in an artistic manner. As usual, like the past projects, the final digital versions done on Adobe Illustrator have been mounted on a 15" x 20" black Illustration board. Compared to the two original drafts, the digitalized versions have visually transformed.

First and foremost, the two roughs approved by the instructor:

RESULT:

Finished, refined, and digitalized version (8" x 10" rectangles mounted on a 15" x 20" Illustration board)

CLOSE-UP: Left side of the project

CLOSE-UP: Right side of the project

NOTE: The typeface Kristen ITC was applied on the texts, while Nueva Std applied on the heading.

The image on the left side portrays a collapsing pillar of texts that are about to fall down on the first phrase of the heading, Small Child. The second phrase, Big Worries, lies diagonally on top of the bent portion of the pillar of sentences. Originally, on the bottom left side of the image, the term Worries functioned as a group of charging letters carrying the word Big as if it was gigantic javelin that was meant to pierce through and take down a wall-like obstruction. Actually, this obstruction was the text itself (the paragraph). Meanwhile, the phrase Small Child was situated at the bottom right corner curling upwards. However, the most apparent modification done in the image was the shift from Landscape to Portrait page setup; after all, it is supposed to look like a page found in a magazine. The original compositions of the heading and texts in the Landscape version produced a wide, distracting and empty space on the top portion of the image.

On the other hand, the image on the right side illustrates a stack of large letters spelling out Big Worries. The phrase Small Child is placed under the tilted letter "E" of Worries. On the right side of these piled letters lies the a group floating texts arranged in a disorderly manner; the composition of the paragraph is supposed to visually relate to the composition of the stacked heading. There are several, though not too drastic, alterations that have been done on this image. First of all, although not that noticeable, the size of the letter "B" became larger. This was done so that the height of the phrase Big Worries was to exactly match the height of the box itself. Second, this phrase was slightly moved away from the edge of the left side. Third, the size of the floating texts was reduced further; they were originally large enough to take up too much space of the right side of the image. Lastly, Small Child was originally placed at the bottom left corner of the page, directly under the "G" (even the word Small was tilted downwards and positioned on top of term Child).

The final part is due tomorrow at Wednesday, April 27, 2011. There may be a formal critique for this project in class, though it is not certain when it will occur; perhaps it will take place at Monday next week (May 2).