Onomatopoeia

Quite a mouthful this word and a bit hard for me to pronounce correctly...

Onomatopoeia  An onomatopoeia is a type of word that sounds like the thing it is describing.

My first initial attempt was to make a book for children, here is the rough version.

Visual Examples

Pretty straightforward, "does what it says on the tin.."

I guess I pretty much know what I am doing for this word and want to stick to a book as I need some publishing work in my portfolio.  

I need however to find a way to make it interesting and fun as it will target young children.

Children books

My favourites

The Word as Image

Currently working on the A to Z project; I came across this (totally by chance I might add... ).

Close up of the picture above.

American - Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim "Mirror Field inside Random Field" German - Ferdinand Kriwet "Poster"

 Russian - Valerian Neretchnikov "Tree from random letters"

Bodycopy

Visual Examples

Quite sweet, might have been worth see what it would like on transparent paper.

Close up of the picture below, hard to believe the woman is made of a multitude of strips of words pasted altogether. The result is truly amazing.  Here is more example of her work.

The body shaped text really "comes out alive" - for lack of finding a better descriptive expression!  However, I personally feel that the image of the woman sorts of spoils it... maybe it should have been another body shaped text or an illustration?

Nice to have the text follow the steam’s path.  The effect would have been greater if the illustration had been made of text.

I have come across some further examples in this book.

Sketchbook and Initial Ideas

Representing and object or shape through type only.

Just a little brainstorming to get me going.  I know what I would like to do but I still need to find some sort of purpose for it.  Whatever it will be, I like the idea of having it linked to books: 

- stories

- bookstore (packaging for mailing or taking the product away ie recyclable bag, advertising product ie poster, promoting booklet, bookmarks...)

I thought I would try and have a theme around children's book, therefore I chose a tale entitle the "Booted Cat", not sure if the translation is totally accurate as I remember it from my childhood.

This is a close up, amazing how long it took me to just do that... and even so I am not happy with the multitude of sizes and how the text's layout keeps changing!

The chosen ones...

As a result of my personal interests and taste within graphic design, I have decided to develop the following:

BODYCOPY:  

I wanted to portray bodycopy in a format other than in a publication.

I am not quite satisfied with the outcome.

The box doesn't really have any "purpose", the inside has the definition of "bodycopy" but it seems a bit boring.

Everything is flat looking lifeless.

NYJC

Just started a brand new project, as part of the GDA (Graphic Design Applications).  This unit combines two project lasting  5 weeks each.  We will be formatively assessed at first then the for the summative deadline in May; we will need to produce a PDF combining all of our research and final outcomes.

NYJC - National Youth Jazz Collective requires a brand new identity from stationery to website with also a new Logo.  The final outcome should reflect the feel of the Collective: young, dynamic, enthusiasts, talented, exited.

KEYWORDS

I looked into words associated with MUSIC

• Communication (through music)
• Vibration, Beat, Rhthym
• Structure of Sound
• Production
• Blending
• Celebrating

Music is a passionate sequencing of thoughts and feelings such as Happiness or Vulnerability.

VISUALS 

Music can be "translated" through colours

Looking at words such as Beat, Sound, Soundwave.

Combining both bright colours and sound structure.

INITIAL IDEAS

How to represent music through shapes.

Floating circles.

How can I represent the soundwaves?  The Beat?

EXPERIMENTING

Fig 1

Fig 2

Representing soundwaves through a range of medium.  

Fig 1 thread is used to replicate the soundwave.  

Fig 2 shows the use of straws

Floating cirles achieved with candle wax (blue, green and orange) 

on different colour background