Week 8 :: Graphic interpretation of Visuals & Text
Our assignment was to use one of the texts from the handout from class, and to reinterpret the visuals the graphics and using Adobe Indesign create a new layout for it, a new representation of the information.
I chose the Gettsyburg address for one main reason: I doubted anyone else in class would do it (and I was right).
I was recently given an Edward Gorey book as a gift, and I've been inspired by his pen illustrations and decided my representation would be a pen illustration, all hand-drawn. My other obession has always been Arabic calligraphy and how the calligraphy itself forms shapes and beautiful creatures and people.
So I used both ideas to create Abe. However, I will revisit this again and do it properly - I didn't realize my vision. I also didn't have access to a scanner at the time, so this assignment was done using digital images of my drawings. So it definately looks a bit weird.
