Viscom

Viscom was the last two weeks of the electives and I was very nervous about what it would be like. It has always been in the back of my mind to do viscom but I never knew if I would be any good at it. So now was the time to find out if it was really for me.
Our first week of the project was soul type based so we could only use lettering no imagery. I found this a bit difficult and realised that I in fact don't really have any interest in fonts.....
We each got a metaphor that we had to base our projects on my was "You'll be Blown Away" I thinking that this was a fairly OK one to have. So I started hiking of ideas to do with being blown away and eventually I came up with the idea of having the words in the shape of a  twister but as if you were looking down into a twister.

This is a small first version of the final one.

This is the finished one I added in grey lettering to simulate
the greys and blacks associated with a tornado.

This is another typography piece where the full stops are floating away.

This is the same as the before one with the addition
of leaves instead of fullstops being blown away.

This was a different one where the idea was that a pair of lips would be
involved somewhere in the letter to make it look as though the letters
were being blown away



This was based on an idea about smoke drifting
and being blown away.

So on the second week we could only use images no words. I found this a bit easier to do because I am interested in imagery.

This was my final piece for the imagery part. I really liked this
one the gun is to imply being blown away by a gunshot while
the lips are to simulate being blwon a kiss. I think it has a
bitter sweet quaility. I am pleases with the results.



This is just as it seems me trying to figure out how you would make it
look like someone blowing a kiss.

This is a smoking gun one the lips blowning the recently fired
gun smoke away.

This isn't a particularly interesting one but it helped me in the process
of making the final piece.

This was the beginning of the lips I was trying to make a tunnel
out of them so that it would look like kisses being blwon away.

This is the same thing really just in red.

This is where is began to get interesting and I then introduced the
gun element which became the finished piece.

This is something else that I had been thinking about so I said I would give it
a shot and see how it came out I really like this too but I was unsure if

          it worked so I stuck to the lips.





So after the two weeks of working in viscom I have decided that I don't think that its for me. I'm glad I gave it a shot though so at least now I know that I don't really want to do it. Its not that I didn't like it I just don't think that I'm that good at it. I don't think I'm passionate enough about it either. But was worth while all the same.