What did I learn about the project? I learned that the parts of a letter and of a word are more numerous than what meets the eye. That typography takes as much study to perfect as does photography, drawing or even painting. I have learned to appreciate those who design logos and manipulates the letters to define a word without using anything besides what is provided. All art takes effort and time to create something wonderful, and that includes typography.
Difficulties: Well the main difficulty that I faced was manipulating the cardboard into a viable shape for a letter. Measuring and cutting took too much time and our shapes were not as accurate as we wanted them to be. We had to make a lot of shortcuts to get the letters to be uniform in size. Also the pathfinder in Illustrator never really worked for me, that was a difficulty because I could not figure out what to do without relying on my teachers for help.
Solutions: Well we decided to use a lot of recycled cardboard for our letters that way it wouldn't cost as much. We used the cheap cardboard for the mini models, and then the better cardboard was used for the giant letters. I never really figured out how to use pathfinder correctly so I had to improvise when it came to my compositions. Unfortunately that means the pathfinder exercises are missing in this process book.
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