To infinity and beyond...
By: Francesca Facchini Art 130 Spring 2020
Table of Content Page D* School 5 Dot Line
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Letterforms
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Object Iteration 10 PSA 13 Designer Presentation
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Relfection 18 Vocation Question 19
Art 130 was challenging course, but it was an interesting course. We have done all our projects digitally and I have learned so much since the beginning of the semester. Since I will be an art/graphic design major, I proud to learn new techniques with Photoshop and InDesign. The feedbacks from critiques and in-process critiques has helped me to improve my future project.
D* School We interviewed a classmate or someone outside of the class. After the interview was over, we came up with a solution to their problem about SNC. My partner problem was parking spot and math course. I came up with an idea for the parking spot problem, I used this idea from my high school.
We would have a ticket number that tells us which spot is ours for the whole, but we were responsible to pay $200 per semester.
Dot Line Dot Line is about working plentifully and iteratively with both words and images. This project showed me was that I didn’t expect with playing the circles and lines around versus sketching the drawings. Gestalt is an origanized whole that’s perceived as more than the sum of its parts.
Intial Sketch
In the future, I would use my sketch ideas from my sketchbook because it did give me more ideas about the project. The exercises may have helped me with getting an idea of how to define the three words and make them look like the words.
Chaotic
Freedom
Energetic
It was a little difficult to represent the ideas being at home and working on my other class work, but it gave me an idea on what to do differently for the final project. I’m not a big fan of playing around with cut out pieces because it takes me a little longer to complete the project and get an idea about the word. I prefer to sketch the ideas of the project instead of playing around with the circles and lines.
Letterforms Letterforms talks about how letters look can impact how we receive their meaning. For this project, we selected to make multiple variation. First, we started by sketching the word in different styles. We carved linoleum letters that contains the alphabet. Second, we started working on pressing the linoleum letters on the paper to see the shading of the letters and which we should use for our letterforms critique.
In-process
I learned that it wasn’t easy working with ink letters. The ink that I using was easy, but the challenge was not getting any fingerprints on the paper. I did so many letters, prints because I was experimenting the shading of ink color to get it where I want the ink to be at.
Final critique
If I were to continue with the letterform, I would turn one of my prints into a sunrising up by using the copy machine and have a sun in the background. I also try to express WAKE by moving the letters like the sun is rising. I don’t think WAKE didn’t match with the theme of the word because I was trying to describe the word to the class.
Object Iteration For this project, we looked at animals that would be best for our project. The goal was to learn the peacock beauty within the feathers and I love the peacocks’ color. The final format for this project was to have six squares within the poster. We were asked to pick two artist as our master artist, so I picked the Tattoo Artist and Kara Walker as my master artist.
Tattoo Artist and Kara Walker
I learned more about the peacocks’ by making the feathers look like there are moving. In Photoshop, I found the eraser tool to be very helpful because it allowed me to change the background of the paper’s color and take out the background of the sketchbook.
Blind Sketches I found the typographic iteration to be the most difficult, but I found the silhouette and continuous line to be the most enjoyable.
Final Format
I would like to work more with the collage iteration because it looked like it needed something more.
PSA Poster
For this project, we were asked to work with a client to design a PSA poster. The project was typed only and the client provided enough information about the poster including the headline and body text.
Intial sketch and in-process critique At first, it was challenging to being only limited to type, but it got me out of my comfort zone with more images and less words. The challenge was to make sure that the words would be able to fit on the poster. The other challenge was making sure that I got the COVID-19 germs right and matches with the images that are in the news. I would look at the size of the text to see if I could fill in the negative space on my poster. My main concern was making sure that everything was together and not in a mess.
During this project, I learned that I could change a letter into the image of the theme that I have developed some skills while working on InDesign like I was messing with the colors for COVID-19 germs before submitting the final poster and I accidently mixed green and gray color together. I was thinking about leaving the color until I decided to change the colors on the poster.
Final Critique
Designer Presentation For this project, we selected a designer to research and present information on. We had to present 20 slides that transitioned after 20 seconds. I was drawn to Ruth Ansel’s astronaut spread because it was too daring and challenging with the combination of fashion, pop, culture, space exploration and music.
Ruth Ansel
April
1965
The Astronaut Spread
July 1984
I would be nervous with presenting in front of class, but I wouldn’t be nervous to talk in front of the class with flashcards. The challenge was to have enough information for each of the slides because I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to talk about the slide with a timer for each of the slides. I would research David Carson more because the work is very interesting and mind blown.
Reflection Art 130 has challenged me to get out of my comfort zone and try new tools because I was lost in the beginning of the semester and now, I look back at my projects and I have seen improvement from the beginning to now. One of the projects that I would revisit is the letterforms because I wanted to make the background of the paper look different than the other letters. The other idea for the background was to have a person waking up by using Photoshop because I had one of the letterforms turned around.
Vocation Question Are you called to creative work? If so, how do you recognize that calling? If not, to what do you feel called? I feel like the creative work me because I find the joy in creating the design. Whenever I have nothing going on during the day, I would come up with an idea for an artwork that I recognize. I enjoy making fun graphic design work because it relaxes me, and it also helps me be more creative with my work. What’s something you’ve made in the last two years that you’re proud of? I remember making a graphic design project for a computer class in high school during my senior year. The project was to combine two images into one image. The two images that I used is the Alaska lights and the Magic Kingdom. It was my very first graphic design, artwork and it got me to think about my future career.
