e.e. eeeeeeee

i have two more collages but my scanner isn't big enough so i'm just going to wait till i scan them at school on the big boys.

but here is some more typewritin' for now....

i wish i could take screen shots of real life

i went to the library and got a couple books of e. e. cummings poetry and i am working on more visual interpretations of them....

i am excited about this project!

.........more later, just wanted to give a lil update

oh, and of course, i am thinking about my process book constantly.

and i am thinking i will have to rework/redo lots of my specimen book as well, it is not really up to par.

it feels good to do something like this again...

so what i am working on doing is making interpretive pieces about each poem...

this one is for the poem i posted before from my journal, by e. e. cummings.

"i carry your heart with me"

also, i was just playing with my typewriter so here is the poem on the typewriter as well...

trying to make a ballpoint pen run out of ink on a scrap piece of paper

robert rauschenberg transfer drawings

 

e. e. cummings

so..........

 ..

i i think what i want to do is a series of posters....

i'm pretty sure i want to use poetry by e. e. cummings

i want the posters to have a front and a back, so maybe when you unfold them there is something else...

i think the front will be some kind of collage or something, maybe light transfers that are kind of rauschenberg-esque.. and then on the back i will set a poem

does this sound good?

this is my journal... another poem

i had a good talk yesterday about school and inspiration or lack thereof...

i don't really know what i want to do for my next project, but i think i want for it to have something to do with words that really speak to me, words that ring true to me, something honest.

these words will be poetry and lyrics.

hopefully it won't be cheesy or cliche, but i guess it might be. i want to work with something that really matters to me, though.

the format could be a book or a collection of posters or something like that.

i want to use screen printing and collage and hopefully they will fit together they way they do in my head, though i only have a vague idea right now.

right now this is making my heart go pitter-patter...

i like my body when it is with your

body. It is quite a new thing.

Muscles better and nerves more.

i like your body. i like what it does

i like  its hows. i like to feel the spine

of your body and its bones, and the trembling

-firm-smooth ness and which i will

again and again and again

kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,

i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz

of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes

over parting flesh . . . .  And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you so quite new

I changed the height from 8" to 7"

I centered the artists on the bottom

I added the "Total Tracks Played"

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basic typography?

i am trying to kern modern no. 20 but my eyes are not working for me right now....

can anyone with better eyes help me with this spacing?

my brain stops functioning sometimes when i need to space in indesign....

here it is big:

and here it is little:

thanks.

sss

,

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more info graphic progrezz

here is my info graphic so far again....

i'm not sure if this will ever be finished.

i still have more changes to do but i figured i'd procrastinate a little bit since that is one of my favorite things to do.

ch-ch-ch-chaaannngessss

variety: the spice of life?

i played with the colors (made the background black, as the great jon serrano suggested) and i am just playing with colors in the title. i also changed the size of the text in the key from 10 pts to 8.5 pts. and changed the thickness and height of the colored lines next to each artist's name.

the first one is a close up of the type and the second one is the whole shibang all in one shot.

Things to work on...

My crit last night...

- Play with colors, the muted color palette is weighing the energy down, maybe try white or black for the background

- Work with the key - lighter weighted typeface, should be long and horizontal

- Color of the title should reflect the colors of the waves

- Everyone seemed to like Modern No. 20 better than Archer, so I will work with that

- Kerning

So I will hopefully have some more progress tomorrow or tonight, depending on how long it takes me to prep for screen printing!

ALSO:

My boss is having a gallery show in Philadelphia next friday (November 7) so you guys should all try to make it down there if you can! He is awesome and so is his work... The information is on the website in the news feed...  http://www.huntergatherer.net

(Sorry, I had to throw that in there...)

I'll get workin' soon enough.

ps

my book for the end of the semester is going to consist of screen shots and collages and zoomies and i bet i will find a way to work a cat into my design

i'am looking forward to it

blip blap

And I added some more of they key...

And this is what 

I 

see.... 

when i look

at

the

sc

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I tried Modern No. 20 as Gen suggested, but I don't think I like it as much as Archer since the weight is all the same..

i think i resolved the colors?

still need to do all those other things on my list.

advice is appreciated!

chuggin' along

these colors aren't completely final, but they're along the lines of what i'm aiming for. right now i think they're a little punchy.. i want them to be closer to the background color. the dimensions are 8" by 28" but that could change.

HERE'S WHAT I STILL HAVE TO DO..

1| finalize colors and put them in order (possibly switch a few colors around)

2| choose typefaces. in class gen suggested using bodoni or modern no. 20 italic lowercase to achieve a more delicate look. any other suggestions?

3| work out the spacing in the key, right now the stuff i have is kind of thrown together just so i can keep track of stuff.

4| additional text? i was thinking about adding some other text to help with the balance of the page. (right now it is really heavy on the left side) some text i might add...

a| the months i listened to this particular music... ie, september 2007 - september 2008, or maybe showing that in a more interesting way

b| a little something about each of the artists, ie, where they are from or a small paragraph about each artist? i'm not sure yet. i definitely don't want this to look like i needed to fill space so i threw some random information on the page, i want it to be cohesive.

c| something about how i gathered this information (lastfm)



so i could actually really use some feedback right now, especially concerning the additional text. any ideas about what i could add to support the graphic?

thanks a bunch, babies.

this is is isisssss

Added some type and color.

I don't know how I feel about the title yet, mainly because I am usually pretty reserved as far as size/weight changes go, so this is weird for me?

HERE LOOK

I like the background color but I'm not sure about the wave colors yet.

OOOOOHHH also I am trying that thing at the bottom with the colored lines next to the artist names to show which wave each person matches  up with.

Nothing is completely worked out yet because all of a sudden I am afraid of color and typography. coolz.

typeface is archer.

color palette?

color palette?

color palette?

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color palette?

color palette?

color palettew?

color palttte?

color palette?

color pasltte?

color cplateel?

thinking about these colors so far... i don't know. beginnings.

jyes?

know?

no?

now?

let me know/no/now/jnow?

more info graphic progrezz

a lil more progress.

now i have all twenty-two waves and they are in order. mrow i'm going to work with color and numbers and some kind of key system.

......yes/

info graphic progress..

 
I still have four more sound waves/artists to add, but here they all are in order of number of plays, so far... (Still need color, artist names, numbering system, and to put them in alphabetical order so it doesn't look so boring) but I made a lot of progress since my last post...

I need a little break from this for now so I figured I'd post my progress so you guys can comment if you want.. but there isn't really much to say about it.

info graphique!

SUNDAY WAS MY BIRTHDAY SO I EXCUSED MYSELF FROM POSTING

but last week i really did work on the infographique and i just worked on it more, even though it looks like i haven't done anything at all. i promise you, hours have gone into this so far.

i haven't chosen the colors or worked with the band names/numbers yet (the ones there are just for me, so when i rearrange the waves in order of band name i won't forget which one is which) but i spent a lot of time figuring out the size for each (i made myself a grid, kind of)

so.... HERE!

Rethinkin'

Starting over, but using the same concept...

I'm going to use my top artists from the past year, because  I think it will look more interesting. I tend to make a playlist and listen to it for about three months, so showing my top music from the past year will show more accurately my favorite bands.

Not that anyone really cares, but I'm wasting time a little bit right now and I just really like typing so I'll post all my information..

Why? (5,203)

The Dodos (3,489)

Beirut (2,719)

Broken Social Scene (1,069)

Bob Dylan (1,024)

Sigur Ros (993)

Wolf Parade (944)

The Fiery Furnaces (936)

Girl Talk (858)

Modest Mouse (785)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (763)

Stars (734)

World's End Girlfriend (670)

Mirah (661)

Andrew Bird (655)

Cloud Cult (559)

Neutral Milk Hotel (444)

Vetiver (423)

Fleet Foxes (421)

The Blow (375)

The Bird and the Bee (353)

Andrew Ethier (276)

Also, I'm thinking about maybe putting them in a line in alphabetical order so that the sound waves don't just diminish in size, I feel like that might get a little boring..

And from what I understood from my crit in class I should rethink the 'key' at the bottom, try making the numbers the same size, the overall composition should be a hotdog instead of a hamburger, and maybe play with the colors, but I think I like them muted.. but thats just because I prefer muted colors a lot of the time, as you may have noticed.

Thranks for yo help.

printers: god's most reliable creation?

My printer and Illustrator aren't getting along for some reason, and only the gray background is printing out... until I mediate this disagreement I'll just post a better screen shot of the sound waves on here..........

Working more on the first concept...

I don't really like it very much, but I don't know what to do. I'm kind of stuck.

(I forgot to explain it before.. the numbers inside the sound wave represent the number of songs I have listened to by each artist in the last seven days.. There will eventually be ten artists and I also have all that other information that I could show, and would like to show, but I just don't know how yet)

Again..

So this is what I've been working on since my last post (with a break to watch the debate)

Better?

Its not finished and I don't have them in place or colored, but I wanted to post my progress...

More

I don't like where this is going.

I think I'm going to start over. blagh.

Info Graphic Attempt...

So I've been working for hours and I'm having a pretty hard time with this...

Here's what I have so far.

I was trying to show the number of tracks played by each artist in the form of sound waves..

It isn't really doing anything for me now, but I guess I'll continue with it a little longer just to see how it goes.

Its very possible that I will end up changing it.

Info Graphic

So I have all the information for my info graphic.

I decided to continue with the idea of using the music i listen to the most, broken down into artists and tracks. I think I'm going to try to show both of those from the last twelve months, the last six months. the last three months and the last seven days. We'll see if I can incorporate all those somehow.

I'm thinking about maybe using the following as reference points for my design:

(1) Equalizer

(2) Speakers

(3) Record Player

(4) Show Posters

(5) Sound Waves

(6) iTunes|iPod

(7) Records|CDs|Tapes

But I don't want it to look like iTunes or an iPod.. I don't know, I'm scared to really do this so I think I've been procrastinating, even though this has been on my mind for weeks...

Here we go. Updates later!

(Also, I'm going to be working more on my Specimen book, because I want to be proud of it when its finished and I'm not completely happy with it as it is now, so any feedback you guys could give me would really be appreciated)

Thanks!

Revisions

I had these in class last week but I forgot to show them..

Revisions to two pages in my specimen book... 

"Potato Canon" and "Beautiful Persian or Ugly Husband"

For "Potato Canon" I made the title and the text a little smaller, and for "Beautiful Persian or Ugly Husband" I used my typewriter to write out the text and I used the same images again. Let me know what you all think, and if you think I should change any of the others at all. Feedback is appreciated..

(Blogger won't let me upload images right now for some reason, so I'll try again later I guess)

SORRY THAT TOOK SO LONG blogger wasn't letting me upload images

What should I do?

These are the spreads I brought in last week.

What do you guys think I should do to improve them?

Comments/suggestions greatly appreciated...!

Infographic

I've been cooped up in my apartment all weekend working on Poulin's type homework, but at the same time I've been trying to think of ideas for my infographic. Last week I decided I was going to design something based on my top tracks/artists on LastFM, but then KFetz pointed out that one of the examples on Typoblogger is Felton's graphic about LastFM tracks... So, either I saw that, subconsciously took note of it and later thought it was my idea, or I just  didn't see it and I had the same idea.

Anyway, back to the drawing board...

i like this.

"I often compare typography to lighting design. When you walk into a poorly lit room, you may not know the lighting is the culprit, but you know something is wrong. Likewise, great typography makes people feel good, and effective typography quickly becomes associated with strong businesses and brands." - Ellen Lupton

I'm not sure if  "Nemesis Required" is finished, but I feel a little better about it. 

And here is "We Live Together." That one might need something else, too.. any ideas?

Thanks!