Wonder Wandering with Words

    For this project I wandered around the city of Winnipeg to find the best spots where graffiti laid. Winnipeg has a ton of awesome street art all over the place. Graffiti art and murals and other types of art styles on buildings....and even on trains! I took a lot of photos and picked the best ones to put in a little book with my poetry. I also vectorized my paintings and put them behind the text of my poetry. If you love city art photography and poems check out my pics below:

Digital Typography

    My teacher adores Jessica Hische's lettering designs. Yesterday I was told to design my own letters and words and to choose a book title to revamp. I chose to re-design Laini Taylor's "Daughter of Smoke and Bone" book title. 

    The book is a fantasy novel by author Laini Taylor. The narrative follows seventeen-year-old Karou through a fantastical war between angels and monsters. It is a modern, urban fantasy spanning human cultures and monster worlds. Karou, the protagonist, perfectly balances both her roles in life; one as a normal art student and the other as an errand runner for a strange creature who she sees as her father. Her family is made up of chimera monsters and they have been with her since birth. Karou begins questioning her existence and being when she meets the fierce, serious and beautiful angel, Akiva.

My original lettering design

    I made the letters and words of the book’s title more interesting. I researched glitchy font styles and was inspired to try and recreate my own version of glitchy font. The word daughter is in my all-original designed font. The colors cyan and bright magenta around the white letters are feminine yet visually exciting because they have breaks in the letters. Broken pieces seem to hover around them as well which makes the word appear as if it’s glitching. I wanted the word daughter to have a glitchy effect because Karou, in the book, is the daughter of Brimstone, a chimera and her birth in the human world is kind of a glitch. An unexpected gesture of mercy but also an act that made some beings in the chimera world angry. The word smoke was made in photoshop. I liquified and added a smoke texture to the letters. I also distorted and skewed the letters, transforming them to my desired shape. I was inspired by smoke. Smoke is fluid and very wispy. The word bones were easy to create. I chose a bold, thick font and added white lines that I sometimes attached little white balls to the ends to make them bone like.

Learning the InDesign Adobe program. Made a fake resume.

    The Adobe program, InDesign is very useful for making magazine and book spreads. Anything to do with writing, and graphics like in flyers or digital zines this program excels at. For one of my class assignments I had to make a resume. I decided to make a fake one due to time constraints. I experimented with shapes and I used different fonts. I hope I can get cool jobs like what the resume indicates. I'd love to impact my city in a positive manner, helping out the businesses that make up society and influence the diverse communities. 

I learned how to make and utilize symbols. Mine looks like a logo.

    I made a stylized letter J for my Adobe Illustrator's make symbols and utilize them assignment. I really like how clean the letter J looks. I love the chunky, new age line look. I also love maple leaves, and it's gradient fits nicely. Now, who wants to hire me to make them a business card logo? 😁

Assignment 9, Making Text Effects

    I decided to use a variety of text effect techniques to achieve a cool look for the idiom " In the twinkling of an eye." The sentence sounds a bit magical and cool. It inspired me to use the font called Wizardry and to make my own font for the rest of the sentence. I tried to use colors that can be found in eyes. I am proud that I got the hang of this style of effect. I recommend this tutorial. Click the word tutorial to go to the video that helped me.