My mini dictionary defines these to have meanings of:
Modern adj. of present or recent times
Manuscript n. book or document, orig, one written by hand; copy for printing
When you think of manuscript, you think of old, important writing, one of a kind.... and most probably, Bible? Am I right?
Well this project is going against that (well, no, it will be one of a kind!).
Mr Skinner has given us some really un-interesting (depending on your view) bits of writing by some self-absorbed musicians - the writing content isn't important, it's how it looks that matters (unfortuantly the way it is in society A LOT of the time nowadays hah)
My initial ideas included:
- This is your life/photo album/ diary style digital book
- Post it note trail
- Writing on paintbrush handles
- Using a game of scrabble to spell out the words
- Printed onto the back of receipt paper
- Escalator stairs
After a discussion with Mr S., I have decided that I will try out the Escalator idea and adapted the paintbrush idea so that it is pencil crayons - you can get big sets of all the colours of the rainbow!
Hopefully T.K.Maxx in Lynn will let me take some detailed pictures of their escalator so that I can photoshop the words onto the steps and make it go round and round and round :)
Quite excited by this project... the only problem is that at this moment I have got 3 projects on that I really like - how can i divide my time fairly?
UPDATE - 22.04.09
A bit of a major jump in time on this project... as today was the deadline and everything has been submitted!
I can't upload the finished article YET because its saved as a psd or pdf and my Photoshop trial ran out today so I can't change the file type just yet....
I went with the pencil crayon idea as THE idea after deciding that taking on 2 projects would just create un-needed pressure/stress.
I have analysed the text style/layout and typefaces on pencils like no one ever before (well, someone probably has been geekier, but it feels like I am the biggest pencil typeface geek atm!) in order to replicate some existing styles of pencils and make them look convincing...
...2 of my fave styles *cringe* - I can't believe I have preference on the style of pencils haha
This is one of the crazy things that Graphic design drives you to...
I arranged 49 pencil crayons into different orders... size, colour, random etc and photographed them to get a visually interesting image and I chose to use this one:
The picture isn't the best quality ever but has 'stretched' to A3 without any problems!
And voila.... the final:
UPDATE 26.04.09 - PDF conversion to PNG :)
I like it :)
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