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The assignment was to pick a quote and read it. Really read it to understand what it was trying to say. And then represent it in three parts over two different mediums — paper and screen.
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Interpreting Voice A process book by Kinnari Thakker
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven W. B. Yeats
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven W. B. Yeats
Had I the heaven’s embroidered cloths
Had I the heaven’s embroidered cloths
Enwrought with golden and silver light
Enwrought with golden and silver light
The blue
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
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I chose a poem.
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Assignment Part 1 Enhance the meaning of the words in the quote.
He wishes for the cloths of heaven
Constraints Use a 7˝ square Text in 10pt Frutiger, one point only Horizontal type, only black
unconditional love dreamlike
Had I the heavens embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths, Of night, and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet, But I being poor, have only my dreams, I have spread my dreams under your feet, Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats
flowing weaving sadness selflessness
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Of night and light and the half-light
and the half-light
But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
linespacing contrast He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven W. B. Yeats
threads cloth texture loom
Enwrought with golden and silver light The blue
ever since high school this poem has meant a lot to me. its laden with sadness and the discontentment of unfinished love
and the dim and the dark cloths
through the exercise I am trying to capture parts of these interpretations while remaining within the constraints of the assignment.
Of night and light and the half-light
I would spread the cloths under your feet But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
sketching selecting one piece
refinement
I then tried to visualize by using the actual words of the poem, first written in by hand and eventually in InDesign. my approach was to read the poem again and again trying to grasp how it is being read— where the pauses are, where the expressions lie. this was then tranferred into linespaces, positioning choices, and linebreaks. refinement the refinement included incorporating feedback from Dan and my classmates during a classroom crit.
Had I the heaven’s embroidered cloths
it also makes me think of a beautiful piece of cloth being woven with blue and dim and dark threads. he is talking about a cloth which in reality is a metaphor for his dreams and desires for her.
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and light
I have spread my dreams under your feet:
the poem is filled with emotion and rich visual language.
Graduate Studio I Fall 2010 Instructor: Dan Boyarski School of Design Carnegie Mellon
Of night
I would spread the cloths under your feet
I would spread the cloths under your feet... But I, being poor have only my dreams:
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and the dim and the dark cloths
sketching since we had just finished class sessions where we were representing words using only one shape—a square, I had it fresh in my mind and began with some simple gestures on paper.
final design