Today our task was to create an Alphabet. We were separated into groups and we had to discuss what we were going to make out alphabet out of. We had decided that "tea" was a suitable material. I also brought lego in just in case we had no idea what to do, we could still make letter shapes out of lego. Whilst some of us were making letters out of tea, some with glue and then sticking down the tea, others with a letter cut out of a tea bag, the rest of the group were making lego letters for back-up. I was the one who cut out the shapes in tea-bags and created some of the letters out of lego.
(So many teabags, so much tea!)
(So much lego!)
Once we had finished the main alphabet (the tea one) we photographed the whole thing and it looked like this...
I quite liked the alphabet as a whole. However the size of the loose tea letters are far larger that the teabag letters, but I feel it creates a nice contrast between the two. If we had more time, I think I would have used a set font for the loose tea and the same font for the teabags. But as we were working as a group and everyone had their own style of handwriting, I guess it didn't turn out that way. A consistency of thickness would have also been nice, but then again the way the letters vary from each other could represent the way loose tea spreads out in not always the way you want it to.
I wasn't quite sure what the activity we were meant to do was, but I thought we had to photoshop a sentence/ quote using our tea alphabet into an environment... So this is what I did...
I thought it turned out okay. I'm no beginner at photoshop, but I don't like to say I'm a genius either... Plus this was done really quickly because I thought we had to hand it in the next day, and then it turns out I don't think we even had to do this... I think it was a task I made up in my head. I'm really liking Vis Com, it's just getting better and better! It's such a relaxing atmosphere and you just get to sit at a table and be creative with limitations which push me to create new things! I find being put in such a situation can help me understand more about me and how I work to solve problems, also helpful in the design industry.
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