Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Project
Okay, so I've gotten several reviews about my project. The t-shirt background idea is a definite. And after checking out the Susan G. Komen website, I found that the official logo is a multi-colored pink ribbon, tilted to the right with a pink dot on top of it. So I can use plain pink ribbons for the project. The pink ribbon is tied to breast cancer, but it is not the same as the official logo. I will take some pictures of the 2008 Cure shirt, and use the 2007 Cure shirt for the background. I got some suggestions about different photos that I could use from the Internet: a woman after surgery to remove the cancer, or a hospitalized patient vs a healthy woman/mother. Danielle told me about a story of a woman who cured herself of breast cancer just by believing that she could. She said everyday that she was healthy and eventually it actually worked. I don't know how I could incorporate that whole story, but I could just add a simple subtitle to the poster saying "Believe." It's a short message, but sometimes short messages are sometimes the best ones. So now I'm off to Hobby Lobby to see what sort of odds and ends I can find.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Font-y and Text-y Stuff
The font biography of Helvetica that we watched in class was surprisingly cool and interesting. And I would just like to point out that spellcheck recognizes neither Helvetica nor its own name. How sad. Back to the video. It was personally interesting to me because when I was younger (much younger) my mom and I used two fonts: Geneva and Helvetica. We never used Times. But I can't remember the last time I've typed something in either of those fonts. Everybody wants Times or Times New Roman. I'm willing to bet that at least 90% of the assignment sheets I've been given since freshmen year in high school have specifically requested Times. Why? Blogger doesn't use Times, it's set at Arial right now. Okay, I take that back. I just switched it to Courier. But Times is one of the few options there. Where did Helvetica go? Did it disappear again? The video mentioned that people got tired of seeing the same old Helvetica so they went kind of crazy with fonts. Well, I'm not looking that closely (I've never thought to before) but I don't think that's happening now. So we're not using crazy fonts, but Helvetica is not a school standard. Is it just in schools, or is it more widespread? I'll admit it - I have a hard time telling some fonts apart. Mostly for two reasons: one, I don't know what's different about them, and two, I've just never really looked before. I think this is going to bother me for a while.
I'm not dead set on using this font, but I had been thinking of using Lucinda Handwriting for any text on my unit 1 project. It's not a messy handwritten font - it's still very neat and orderly, but it's not Times either. To me, it seems more real and soft or gentle or something like that. That's what I wanted for the poster. It's supposed to persuade viewers to help out or at least be aware of breast cancer, but I didn't want a big strong bold font that screams of masculinity. I wanted a more feminine style. That's why I choose Lucinda Handwriting, and not Lucinda Cursive. The Cursive is more loopy and intricate and all that, while the Handwriting is somewhat connected but also separate. I just think it works really well. However, I am still willing to reconsider. I really like the Papyrus and LegerD fonts, but I don't think either of those would really be right for this project. If I still have or can find it, Apple Chancery might be nice. It's kind of in between Lucinda Handwriting and a generic plain font. Looks kind of italicized, I think. Ah well. It all depends on what the poster looks like, I think.
I'm not dead set on using this font, but I had been thinking of using Lucinda Handwriting for any text on my unit 1 project. It's not a messy handwritten font - it's still very neat and orderly, but it's not Times either. To me, it seems more real and soft or gentle or something like that. That's what I wanted for the poster. It's supposed to persuade viewers to help out or at least be aware of breast cancer, but I didn't want a big strong bold font that screams of masculinity. I wanted a more feminine style. That's why I choose Lucinda Handwriting, and not Lucinda Cursive. The Cursive is more loopy and intricate and all that, while the Handwriting is somewhat connected but also separate. I just think it works really well. However, I am still willing to reconsider. I really like the Papyrus and LegerD fonts, but I don't think either of those would really be right for this project. If I still have or can find it, Apple Chancery might be nice. It's kind of in between Lucinda Handwriting and a generic plain font. Looks kind of italicized, I think. Ah well. It all depends on what the poster looks like, I think.
Materials
Here's what I'm thinking of right now to use for the project. (And the requirements so I don't forget anything.)
4+ materials
4+ photo-edited of others
4+ original images
*I could actually buy one of the leftover Cure t-shirts (they're only $3) and put that on the board instead of just taking a picture.
*OH. I can use one of the lanyards ($1) to make a hook to hang the poster.
(So, $4 plus 35% percent off...ahahaha I love employee discounts.)
Why do we say plus a percentage off?
Isn't that backwards? Am I the only one who notices stuff like that?
Why is English so weird??
4+ materials
4+ photo-edited of others
4+ original images
*I could actually buy one of the leftover Cure t-shirts (they're only $3) and put that on the board instead of just taking a picture.
*OH. I can use one of the lanyards ($1) to make a hook to hang the poster.
(So, $4 plus 35% percent off...ahahaha I love employee discounts.)
Isn't that backwards? Am I the only one who notices stuff like that?
Why is English so weird??
*I was going to knit a mini ribbon thing, but I don't have pink yarn and I left the white at home. I do have some red left over from Xmas - it's got either gold or silver flecks in it. That's still usable, though.
*We had to wear little pink ribbons on a safety pin on our nametags at work for months this summer, so I could stick that somewhere. It's tiny, maybe 1 1/2" tall at the most.
*During the FWAGLL (Fort Worth American Girl Luncheon League) last Saturday, the girls (24 of them, good grief!) made little heart shaped pillows out of felt, stuffing, and yarn. They were really cute, and I don't know about anyone else, but when I think of breast cancer, I can relate it to the image of a heart pretty easily. I mean, that's in the right area of the body, and I'm not really comfortable getting a picture of a naked breast, and who wants to see what it really looks like on the inside? So, a heart. Besides, it's almost Valentine's Day.
*Then there's the 4 photos/images that aren't mine...I might try to get an image of the founder, Susan Komen's sister. Then I can arrange some text near her face so it's like she's speaking to us. Or maybe that would work better with Susan Komen herself...hmm.
*I also want a photo that I can Burn, so maybe a before/after sort of thing, although that's awful common...probably because it works.
*Huh. I just had two good ideas, but the stuff I need for them is at home. Maybe one of my parents won't mind being a packmule...? I could either make tissue paper flowers (simple ones), or I might have some dried flower petals still, or maybe even potpurri. I'm thinking of scented things, and obviously tissue paper isn't scented but that's what perfume is for :).
*Textwise, I don't plan to include much. There's the paragraph of course, but other than that...The name, of course, and maybe a website right under it (b/c websites are shorter, and better for info sharing). There's the slogan I used for the mini-project: "Promise to Fight" which I could use, or I might be able to come up with something different.
To summarize:
1) t-shirt
2) lanyard
3) knitted ribbon
4) mini store ribbon
5) pillow heart
6) Susan Komen/sister pic
7) Burnable photo
8) flower/potpurri/scented thing
9) text - paragraph, title, web, slogan
Okie dokie then. Farewell Monday!
*We had to wear little pink ribbons on a safety pin on our nametags at work for months this summer, so I could stick that somewhere. It's tiny, maybe 1 1/2" tall at the most.
*During the FWAGLL (Fort Worth American Girl Luncheon League) last Saturday, the girls (24 of them, good grief!) made little heart shaped pillows out of felt, stuffing, and yarn. They were really cute, and I don't know about anyone else, but when I think of breast cancer, I can relate it to the image of a heart pretty easily. I mean, that's in the right area of the body, and I'm not really comfortable getting a picture of a naked breast, and who wants to see what it really looks like on the inside? So, a heart. Besides, it's almost Valentine's Day.
*Then there's the 4 photos/images that aren't mine...I might try to get an image of the founder, Susan Komen's sister. Then I can arrange some text near her face so it's like she's speaking to us. Or maybe that would work better with Susan Komen herself...hmm.
*I also want a photo that I can Burn, so maybe a before/after sort of thing, although that's awful common...probably because it works.
*Huh. I just had two good ideas, but the stuff I need for them is at home. Maybe one of my parents won't mind being a packmule...? I could either make tissue paper flowers (simple ones), or I might have some dried flower petals still, or maybe even potpurri. I'm thinking of scented things, and obviously tissue paper isn't scented but that's what perfume is for :).
*Textwise, I don't plan to include much. There's the paragraph of course, but other than that...The name, of course, and maybe a website right under it (b/c websites are shorter, and better for info sharing). There's the slogan I used for the mini-project: "Promise to Fight" which I could use, or I might be able to come up with something different.
To summarize:
1) t-shirt
2) lanyard
3) knitted ribbon
4) mini store ribbon
5) pillow heart
6) Susan Komen/sister pic
7) Burnable photo
8) flower/potpurri/scented thing
9) text - paragraph, title, web, slogan
Okie dokie then. Farewell Monday!
MiniProject 2
While I was working on this project, I thought of another organization I might have done, if it was local enough. It's called Edun Live, and the only reason I know about it is because the bookstore keeps getting shipments of t-shirts from them that do not sell. At all. So I thought it would be interesting to promote Edun Live in hopes that that would encourage students to go buy t-shirts. (I definitely have worked there too long ^__^.) But it's way too late to change now, so I shall stick with Susan G. Komen For the Cure.
Anyways, this project gave me two ideas that I might be able to use for the big unit project. My mini project was prettty simple: a photo of a race event, with the middle group of people all in pink, and faded out over that was a decorated pink ribbon. It wasn't the exact ribbon logo - it was all one shade of pink and had some swirls on either side. I blurred the people on the outside of the first photo and sharpened the ones wearing pink in the middle. Then I used Burn, I think, to darken the right side of the photo. It was kind of supposed to show three stages or types: first is the average person, not really involved (blurred, left side), then there's the aware ones who are trying to make a difference (sharpened, middle, pink), and then there's the ones who either don't care or who have been hurt by the carelessness/uncaring/whatever of the people on the left (blurred, darkened, right side). I hope it came close to portraying something like that, even if it came across as simply healthy vs. unheathly.
Back to the ideas: I liked how the ribbon looked, faded over the whole image. I know we can't use an actual logo, but what about someone else's similar creation? I shall ask tomorrow. If that won't work, then maybe just a pale pink tinge would work, or maybe a bow or something like that.
Second, I remember talking to several people about their ideas, and something they had in common was use of color vs blacks and whites. I don't think I want my images to be B&W completely, but I think the result I got using Burn for the mini project was pretty cool. I think it could send a pretty strong signal about the seriousness of breast cancer.
So those are two things I want to try and incorporate into my unit project.
Anyways, this project gave me two ideas that I might be able to use for the big unit project. My mini project was prettty simple: a photo of a race event, with the middle group of people all in pink, and faded out over that was a decorated pink ribbon. It wasn't the exact ribbon logo - it was all one shade of pink and had some swirls on either side. I blurred the people on the outside of the first photo and sharpened the ones wearing pink in the middle. Then I used Burn, I think, to darken the right side of the photo. It was kind of supposed to show three stages or types: first is the average person, not really involved (blurred, left side), then there's the aware ones who are trying to make a difference (sharpened, middle, pink), and then there's the ones who either don't care or who have been hurt by the carelessness/uncaring/whatever of the people on the left (blurred, darkened, right side). I hope it came close to portraying something like that, even if it came across as simply healthy vs. unheathly.
Back to the ideas: I liked how the ribbon looked, faded over the whole image. I know we can't use an actual logo, but what about someone else's similar creation? I shall ask tomorrow. If that won't work, then maybe just a pale pink tinge would work, or maybe a bow or something like that.
Second, I remember talking to several people about their ideas, and something they had in common was use of color vs blacks and whites. I don't think I want my images to be B&W completely, but I think the result I got using Burn for the mini project was pretty cool. I think it could send a pretty strong signal about the seriousness of breast cancer.
So those are two things I want to try and incorporate into my unit project.
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