Final Statement ii

My book title was called "Life Lines". When I was posed to pick a title, I thought about all of my juxtapositions working in unison to create some sort of community. I thought how the city of Kansas City moves and then I started thinking about how the humans that make up the city move as well. How there is a juxtaposition and conversation with the structures and environment we live around and the people that live in them.

From this connection, I have learned to activate and arrange a graphic space. Being able to incorporate line studies and my surroundings really hit home with this point. There is rhythm, texture, tone, and figure/ground relationships everywhere. Being able to connect them with lines and create a juxtaposition is an accomplishing feeling, as well as a great learning process. To start to develop these ideas in the city you live in, with the city you live in is really a magical idea. Being able to do so also made the surrounds that I live in more apparent.

I noticed that using organic vs. manmade photos for the juxtapositions would alter what kind of line study what was used. Most of the manmade structures ended up being pared with line studies that were from the first phase, which were very basic. Or they were they line studies that were manipulated with the projector. The organic lines studies were paired with the more "organic" photographs. Such as line studies from the scanner and photocopier. This was nice to be able to make the connection that skewing media in different ways makes for different outcomes.

Over all this assignment helped me make connections I didn't noticed, or even think about noticing before. Being able to follow the process mentioned in my post below, helped the learning process of the objectives easier to understand. It was a good combination of hand work (tracing images, cutting, gluing, etc.) and digital work (vectoring images, creating line studies, cropping images, editing photographs, etc.). It is very important to have great craft and understand how important each, analog and digital, is and how they come together to create a juxtaposition.

Workday Progress

Here are some compositions I am either done with or working on:

Possible images to be used for more layouts:

Text Options

Below are some of the options for the title and self-authored, supporting text, to help describe the contents of accordion style book, that will be composed with image only. The images will consist of parings, of lines studies (complex, random, balanced, progressive, manipulated, and simple) and their corresponding photographic images.

Text Options:

i. Line [lahyn] noun, verb, lined, lin⋅ing
A continuous extent of length, straight or curved, without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point.

Moving in lines, waiting in lines, and getting from one point to another. This is how we, as humans, live our lives. Whether we conceive these lines as fast or slow, straight or crooked, up or down, we are all just moving from one point to another. One earth, one human race, in small or large collective environments. This is the environment that surrounds us. It is full of silly little epiphanies and juxtapositions. Throughout life, these lines keep structure, whether it be balanced, progressive, or random. It’s just nice to make sense of these things when life reflects and sometimes, even, matches up.

ii. Take a look around. This world never stops moving. In every direction one can find on going occurrences. These occurrences frequency come up in production, growth, and construction. Some of these patterns seem to match on purpose, some seem to be completely by mistake. All of these processes are layered; side by side, grouped in one cramped, and brilliant juxtaposition of life.

iii. From the mind of a sophomore designer, life has two specific points: the birth and death of each day. In between is motion. As of lately, those motions seem to consist of learning balance and making progression, with some of the unexpected randomness in between. Taking these ideals and situations throughout the day can sometimes be stressful. When these ideals click though, it makes for one hell of an epiphany. Especially when these things seem to match up. Sometimes these occurrences are on accident or in one beautiful, serendipitous juxtaposition.

Title Options:

i. A Line Continues
ii. Lines Never Stop Growing
iii. Lines of Communication
iv. Life Lines
v. Encircled with Lines
vi. Point (<) Line

F+S ii

In this photo juxtaposition is displayed from the graphic elements, shapes which activate the space in the composition. Just at first glance, one image relates to the other from the direction of the man's face. The compositions, separately, would create visually appealing photos but by meshing the two pictures there is a relationship, not only by the instruments but also by the shape of the light in correspondence to the banjos. Also, the elements of both extend to form the rest of the guitar at the bottom. These highlighted similarities and extend the idea of the similar elements beyond each composition, to create juxtaposition, harmoniously.

Image found, through google, at grupwerk.blogspot.com