Week 5 :: Design with typography
The assignment was to create a collage using newspaper clippings, billboards, signs, and create a building. I chose one of the buildings on my way to school: this church on Broadway. I think the architecture is beautiful. I was really inspired by the Dada movement and Dave McKean's work.
I wanted to create a disjointed yet unified image of the churge. So I took pictures of it from different angles, different times of day and different resolutions. Then I made a collage of these images. I wanted to make the church appear handrawn and I wanted to saturate the collage with different splashes of color and textures. For the text, I knew that I didn't want it to be simply cut & pasted into the collage, so I created movement with them: the walking legs of text, and the askew building of text.
I couldn't decided which image is nicer. I personally like the pinks, blues and greys, but it seems most people like the greens, oranges and earthy tones more.
