Homework week 1

So in the first class, students had made gigantic letters with cardboard and stuff and they looked so cool - their homework was to take them out a photograph them in spaces to portray them differently - i.e. a 1m tall letter might look big next to a drink bottle, but tiny next to a building.

The other part of the homework - which was where I could start to get involved was to find two examples of spatial type - one as a navigational aid, and one as that created narrative/sense of place.

These were the 2 I chose:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/38203021/Blackout-Premiere

I found this project and loved so much of it - I chose this particular feature of the way-finding/spatial typography they had generated but there were so many other elements that were a part of this movie premiere that were equally brilliant. I picked this image as my placemaking/narrative piece because I love the dimension that creating stairs uses - almost like when you fold paper and draw on it, and then unravel it to reveal something else, the different planes the stairs create leaves itself open for so many angles and visual interpretations.

I chose this as my navigational piece for a completely different reason - I actually found this so overwhelming with all the different instructions bombarding me that I didn't like it. Especially considering that a user is taking in all these different visual cues whilst behind the wheel. There were elements I did like however - for example the sense of humour gave it a point of difference and made the signs engaging and noticeable, however the boards down the left hand side just completely over did the space for me.