BRIEF 3 POETRY IN MOTION

  Hello again,

The dictionary defines poetry as writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in a language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm. Poetry enables our society to express and reveal personal and universal aspects of the human experience. as such, poetry can evoke vivid images and Strong emotion making it the perfect content for expressive typographic experimentation.

In this exercise, I choose the theme song from Jim Morrison (The Doors), Riders on the storm, and just taught up an image which I could express through typography, firstly using an A4 sheet of paper and  pencil I sketched an Image of a horse posing in a sort of a trot stance, making sure that the main lines that would shape the horse, (tail, mane, eye area, hoofs, etc.) were correctly displayed.

On completion of sketch, I decided to work with adobe illustrator using the pen tool to outline my image, once completed I followed with the type on a path tool, by typing the first verse of the lyric experimenting with different font sizes and type, for the definition lines of the horse, the same method was used throughout the design, using separate sections of layers, at this point I could manipulate lines of type using effects like ark, warp, bend, skew, which changes the distortion of a path.

I decided to add a cross to the design using some of the above methods and here is my final design.