Study Task 2 involved us using the vital language of an object to create pictograms or type that represents the meaning of the word.
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The first word that I decided to create a series of images for was the word Anxiety. For this I looked into the hand gestures that people use when they are feeling anxious. Using these hand gestures I simplified them using only straight lines. I then took the shapes which I had created by simplifying them and cut them up and moved the shapes around to create completely new ones. You can see the outcomes that were created in Figure 1.
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The second word which I decided to create a pictogram for was the word beauty. To create this image I drew a pattern that came to my mind when I was thinking of the word beauty. I then overlaid the same pattern many times changing the rotation and reflection each time. Once I had a much bigger image I then created a clipping mask putting the pattern into a circle as seen in Figure 2.
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To experiment further I then put the pictogram into context in a rural setting. Figure 3 did not show up extremely well and therefore didn't work exactly how I would have liked it to however when I placed it on the background used in Figure 4 I think that it added an interesting feature to the picture.
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| Figure 4 |
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The last word that I experimented with was the word ecstasy. The definition of this word is 'an overwhelming feeling of great happiness and joyful excitement'. I therefore decided to attempt to create some type that portrayed the emotions that the word defines. To do this I used the photo booth app on my computer and used some of the effects to create a strange look a drawing of the word ecstasy. You can see this in Figure 5.
The outcomes can be seen in Figure 6 which is once I had edited and vectorised them on Adobe Illustrator.
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