Thursday, February 17, 2011

exercises 4-6, and some revised 1-3







1 comment:

  1. what up shwenk, these are all pretty baller in my book. I would say the circular ones, despite being visually pleasing to the max, are a bit hard to comprehend both in terms of not knowing where to start reading (/hierarchy is unclear) and because a lot of the information is upside down. They're quite fun though!

    My favorites are the bottom two; the shell-shaped one and the planar-starburst one. They're both really legible and have good hierarchy, and additionally the background shapes are interesting without being distracting. They also have this nice way of containing the text without feeling like they're suffocating it. The other circular composition is cool looking too, but the text is so far apart and separate that it's hard to move from one line to the next, it almost feels like i'm a monkey trying to jump from tree to tree but my arms aren't long enough to grab the next branch, or like I don't even have arms to grab the next branch. I think a solution to this would just be to slightly tweak the placement of the lines, so that one would vaguely begin where another one ends, thus improving the flow.

    The rest of them all work really well too but they're more predictable. I like the one with the circular shapes in the background with the rectangular text; it has a wonderful tension and irregular balance where the two balls meet and also where the corners of the text touch.

    Keep up the good work Master Liz, and don't forget to believe in yourself

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