On the first day of graphics we got straight into typography and looking at emotive type.
We were set up with the task of creating several versions of the letter 'A' with depictions of different emotions, such as anger, joy, confidence, depression, fear, shyness, chaos, surprise, frustration and jealousy. We first mind mapped our thoughts on the meaning of this emotion to help us come up with ideas how we would portray our letters. We then were allowed to use a range of materials and techniques to create these emotive representations.
The first emotion I tried to portray was anger, as I managed to get my hands on some red tissue paper. and decided to make the 'A' bold and capital. However, I felt the tissue paper was not a harsh enough texture to truly convey anger so I added some harsh red scribbles to try to make the type more aggressive. Even though I feel that the red pen helped to make the 'A' angry, I did not like the overall outcome of this emotion as I felt I hadn't thought the design through enough.
I then depicted depression within my next 'A', using crumpled up masking tape and charcoal. I decided to make this letter lowercase to portray the melancholia and dullness of depression. The masking tape represented the desolation and the charcoal to represent the darkness of depression. I was happy with how this impression came out.
This was a quick portrayal of fear using charcoal to give the impression of darkness and being closed in. Even though I didn't give too much thought in this depiction, I think it does portray fear well.
This 'A' was supposed to represent confidence, however, I do not feel it fully shows this emotion. I decided to make the letter capital, bold and large to show assertiveness and wanted to use bright colours to show fearlessness, unfortunately, the only coloured paper I could find was pastel shades and didn't depict confidence very well.
The next emotion I represented in my letter was shyness. I chose a lowercase 'A' to convey the meek and timid nature of being shy, I then covered the 'A' in masking tape to give the impression of it hiding. Even though this depiction was simple, I liked the way it came out and did somewhat portray shyness.
The last emotion I conveyed in my type was jealousy. I used different shades of green that connotes this emotion, which made it relatively easy to convey. However, I feel I could of put more thought into this depiction.
I found this task quite difficult as I found it hard to convey the given emotions physically in the letter form, without it looking unclear and unsophisticated, and unfortunately, I didn't have the best material to convey some of the emotions. However, I feel like this could have been avoided if I took more time to really understand the meaning of each emotion and creating a clearer, more accurate depiction.
