Preliminary Photo Books

Last Thursday we were instructed to bring 3 examples of potential photo books. Here are a few pictures of the ones I made:

In the end, with the help of both my teacher and peers, I decided to go with the last on for a little bit of a different approach.

Word Placement

Yesterday we were finally able to all get together to put our words around campus in create places. It feels good to have it done, especially since the tape started losing the adhesive. I hope you like them!

Finished Word Model!

It has taken some intense work these past couple days but today was the day it all came to a close! Between meeting all day Sunday, and a lot longer Monday than was expected, our team was more than excited for it to be finished with our enormous letters. Today we set them up on Wescoe beach for our peers to see, using a pole to make the 'l' just as we had planned. We had a lot of trouble with getting the letters to stay upright considering how extreme the wind was today but all-in-all I think we are all very happy with our outcome :)

Letter Construction

This past week has been focused all on creating our huge letters which will be set up around campus. I posted a picture of how our model will turn out in a past post and since then have been working on construction; it takes a lot longer than one would expect. We plan to meet tomorrow to complete the model seeing as it is due on Tuesday. As soon as it is all glued/taped together we plan to paint it red in which I am responsible to getting so we have to figure out which paint will work the best. I am anxious as to see how it will turn out.

Lettering Rework

While we were set on our previous idea, when it came to thinking about construction we decided to go a different way. After some planning I think this will work out very well. We still plan to put it on Wescoe beach since that's were students gather and are "included", as well as use the same locations for the word and possibly even get a basketball player to pose as the "l" for one of them. I'm very anxious to begin construction and can't wait to see the final product.

We plan to put a monument in the void to create the "L"

Brainstorming

Today we began brainstorming for how our group was going to create this giant form of our word, include. Though we went through several different ideas, the one we have decided upon is pictured below. We ideally want to set it up on Wescoe beach. With this design, we aim to have students walk into the frame, therefore including themselves into the word and demonstrating it's meaning. I am very happy with this idea and really think it demonstrates the word well. Below I have also posted places on campus we could potentially set up our representation of the word to create the "i". 

LETTERS SKETCH

basketball hoop

street sign

jayhawk statue

campanille

basketball statue

20 Word Compositions

Our assignment for today was to create twenty different compositions of our word to demonstrate it's meaning. We were giving just a few restrictions:
1.) must be printed on paper (2D, flat piece of paper)
2.) must be only the word (no decorations, illustration, photos)
3.) must use the font Futura
4.) must fit into a 6 x 6 inch square

We could use:
-spacing
-placement
-orientation of letters (rotate, reflect)
-overlapping of letters
-cropping of letters
-slicing of letters
-omit or repeat letters
-black letters and white letters (positive and negative)

During class, we had our peers pick out their favorite compositions from the bunch. Five of mine were chosen, those of which I have posted below: