let the GRAPHICS beginnnnn...

For my first elective i have Graphics...the first week we are concentrating on typography...we were all given a metaphor to deal with ...mine is "LOVE STINKS"! i have researched it and found out that it is a special type of metaphor... it is a "dead metaphor" which is a metaphor that has become so familiar we are no longer temped to visualize (or to see literally) the action that the metaphor refers to. sometimes one metaphor answers another. so "Love stinks" which implies an image of love as a rotten,reeking thing...responds to the more predictable picture of love the sweet-smelling rose."  a metaphor is a figure of speech in which an expression is to refer to something that it does not denote in order to suggest a similarity in "love is a battlefield".

to get my ideas going....i did a mind-map to put down on paper all the possibilities.

these are my experiments on different typefaces to try and find out which type best suits the metaphor...

this page... i like...A LOT!:) its a very simple concept...i used the shapes of the letters (turning "V" into a triangle shape)of the word "love" to make new shapes by reorganizing them! it very simple looking but it was fun doing it...so i think that is why i like it.

at the start...i was taking things a bit to litterally...i brainstormed "Stink"....i planned on making the word "LOVE" actually stink...i thought this would be a lot of fun!!

this piece of typography is made from vomit...i found it disgusting yet interesting...and i really think it helped to convey the meaning of the sentence..."if you have a weak stomach..be warned!"

this creative typography i found while researching in the library...it is human flesh stretched and pulled into the shape of letters using clothes pegs...i like the idea of clothes peg as it kind of relates to the "stink" part of my metaphor!!

experiments of love..stinking!!

love BITES!(very american saying i know!!)

the opposites....love/hate....stinks/perfume

still working on the whole love actually stinking!!!!

wave bye bye dominoes...

cover the frame of the door in toilet roll as it is the same shape as a domino and hired two budding actors to play the domino "dots"!

teletubbies say bye bye.... :)

surprise forms....

as i was taking down the sheets from the window i was rolling them up and then these forms emerged...i liked them instantly....i thought they look like wind turbnes or something...

these videos shows the movement of the forms...

windows of opportunity..

because of the fact i was looking through the kitchen rolls out the window as seen in the last post...i felt it would be interesting to do silhouettes on the windows at night...this provides a perfect dark negative tone as the shadow....

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this is a video of them moving..."as if the dominoes were falling"!

i tired to do the same in college...

lights camera action...

because of the cone shape of the last piece....i decide to use a cylindrical form...a long kitchen roll tube...i cut the domino silhouettes around the tube and then decided to photograph the shadows made on the inside of the tube ...

negative and postive

out the window into the darkness....

i then decided to change it up...i found a larger toilet roll tube and instead of cutting the silhouettes on the outside , i made forms and placed them on the inside...i shone the light into it and photographed the effects...

looking out the window again....

on to the next one....

or my next phase i think i will focus mainly on the whole shadow/light effects.... cutting simple domino shape to make silhouettes...

i think this part really shows the fluid like movement of the dominoes as they fall...

falling dominos

the shadows are very evident here....

turned it into a cone shape shoulder pad

the reason the shoulder pad is connected to the arm is to reflect the idea of the game of dominoes... statistics show that poeple are most likely yo use their right hand to set up a line of dominoes or to play the actual game....

movement of the game....

i made this print using the wooden dominoes i made a few weeks ago ...i inked them up individually and lay them down...i lay them down as if i was playing the game of dominoes (as in 3 joined to 3 etc etc)...i let the movement of the game decide the overall pattern...

i then decided to create plaster molds of the image.... 

this was the first attempt...and as you can see the uneven walls caused the sides to be uneven...ill know next time!!

second attempt....i made a frame to make sure the walls were smooth and even...

all three attempts..

the final mold on the original print...