This was by far the hardest project I’ve had to do for this class. I was stuck at the beginning thumbnails for the longest amount of time because of two factors that just so happen to be the most important ones for a successful project:
• Inability to ask “what if”
• Inability to extract preconceived images of a word and form a new one with undetectable figures
When I tell you I wanted to cause death to the words debonair and awkward, that’s what I mean. When I was doing the word debonair all I could think about was sharp, but smooth… charismatic and sexy… James Bond. So my mind (and my thumbnails) were surrounded by tuxedos. Upside down ones, right side up ones, sideway ones… I could NOT get away from the idea of the tuxedo. I had to sit and really thing what is it about James bond that makes him debonair and not what it is about debonair that makes it James Bond.
It was about crisp shapes, perfection, sleekness, and centered geometry. I do feel that the picture I ended with depicted that well. Once I did that, I think that awkward came a lot easier.
I was so apt to hold on to one idea, it was really hard to stop and focus and exhaust one idea before going to the next. That may have been where my downfall could have been. I wish I’d spent more time taking the thumbnails seriously, but asking what if just made the word more and more complicated and I just ended up adding more details for aesthetics instead of bettering the depiction of the words.
This was hard but I am glad we did it.