Project for my Typography class.
Objective: Design a stylized poem or quote that we like.
My first choice was immediately made, when I heard what we had to do!
“I dreamed I spoke in another’s language,I dreamed I lived in another’s skin,I dreamed I was my own beloved,I dreamed I was a tiger’s kin.I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,And when I breathed a garden came,I dreamed I knew all of Creation,I dreamed I knew the Creator’s name.I dreamed–and this dream was the finest–That all I dreamed was real and true,And we would live in joy forever,You in me, and me in you.”
― Clive Barker, Days of Magic, Nights of War
Once I started it turned into a right out disaster! The repetition just killed me, so out of pure and utter annihilation I decided to find another quote/poem that I liked. Kept it close to the other one just not as long:
“any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Days of Magic, Nights of War
This suited me fine and I received top points for my work. It really just clicked and I started working like a maniac. Sometimes you just need to let a project rest when you get stuck and focus on something else. Once I was done with working on this I went back and started reworking on the old quote that i had chosen, just to see if I could do something with it anyway. After some research and google work I started getting into the rhythm of things and it started to grow, unfortunately I have not finished it yet, once it is completed I will add it to the site. So just because the first time you work on your project it doesn’t alway come out let it go and work on something else and come back to it. In the real work projects don’t go away cause you as a designer doesn’t have inspiration for it, clients come to you for that!
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