Emily Russo
Accumulate
This project, for an introductory graphic design course, is called Animated Typography. The assignment was to choose a word and to animate it in a way to best represent the word. I chose the word “accumulate” and one of the first things I thought of was accumulating snow. I animated each individual letter of the word to fall from the “sky” at different times. Each layer of letters progressively gets darker in color blue and heavier in weight. Each letter falls at varying speeds like “falling snow,” and with blue being the primary color of the animation for coolness and a winter hue.
Emily Phillips
Furious
Stop frame animation expressing the word “furious”.
Keely Leeman
Route 2 Journal
In 1919, the Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius who wanted to reimagine the world to reflect the unity of all the arts. He pushed for the unity of art and technology by creating new ideas about form, color, space, and methods that soon were integrated into design education. The Bauhaus strived to combine the fine and applied arts to find an objective design language that could overcome the dangers of past styles and personal taste. Typography was seen as both a means of communication and an artistic expression. Gropius’ ideas and many other artists of the Bauhaus movement inspired the design of this journal you are about to flip through. To create unexpected compositions simple forms were manipulated by rotating, repeating, and overlapping. Typography carries your eyes around the page with section dividers that slow you down and ask you to question what you see. A basic color palette reflects my ideas of the Bauhaus aesthetic.
Every story and poem in this journal were thoughtfully written and submitted by a variety of students. Each having their own memories and emotions connected to the literature.
Savannah Caldbeck
The Only Way Out is to Forgive
This work was created for an assignment in “Intro to Graphic Design” called “Animated Typography”. The objective was to create movement to give life and meaning to a word or quote. I decided to choose a quote from my favorite book, Looking for Alaska by John Green, “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” To show the meaning of this quote I chose to incorporate multiple settings to emphasize the point that not only forgiveness, but also suffering happens all around us. Holding a grudge or keeping conflict unresolved can affect us in all aspects and events of our lives, even if it seems only in the moment. It is so important to understand one another and give second chances. My two favorite sequences in this project have to be of the words “suffering” and “forgive”. The movement of the letters in both truly encompass what the words mean to me and how they feel in their effect on us. Throughout editing and creating, my main goal was to both give life to the quote and show its true meaning and impact.