Without a doubt haphazardly is the best word in the English language. It’s fun to say, the meaning is fun, and it’s got a prefix and suffix!

How I made it-

To make this I used Canva. I, using Open Sans, made some letters large, some uppercase, and placed them into various locations to make it look hopefully, well, haphazardly arranged.

Assignment-

The assignment, Word, was to select a single word and convey the meaning of that word by using things such as various sizes, spacing, italics, etc.

Short, but Sweet-

This assignment wasn’t as time-consuming as some of the others I’ve done, but it was a lot of fun. I also like the end result.

Jams is a 80s slang term meaning a collection of music. I arranged the word Jams into the shape of a musical note.

I decided I wanted to relate this design assignment to the 80s. So I looked up 80s slang and found the word jams. I arranged the letters of jams into Photo Image Editor Pixelstyle to create a musical note shape. Hope you enjoy it!

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The goal for this assignment was for this word to speak for itself. I decided to change the word effects to depict this word as you were looking at it from a different perspective. If you try to move your head closer to your screen and to the left you can see the illusion. The word is getting smaller towards the right of the screen! Hopefully, this word spoke for itself.

This assignment seemed interesting to me with the challenge of showing off a word using a font. I chose shadow since i could show a double of the word as if it were casting a shadow

The Word assignment‘s image caught my eye as a visual depiction of “magic”.  The individual letters told a story in addition to the overarching word itself.  The assignment essentially gets the creator to start exploring the visuals that are evoked when we think of certain words.  For my creation, I attempted to visually depict the word “Ancient”.  I picked a font in Paint that had some distortion and areas that were deliberately incompletely filled (AR Darling).  This would ideally evoke older texts and aging materials.  I then started typing the word as I would in a normal word processor, and then began to “sink” the latter letters.  My hope was to create an effect where it looks like as the letters progress, the word begins to sag under the weight of time.

For this Design Assignment, worth 2 stars, we were asked to use a single word and a single typeface to communicate the word and represent it.  The thought behind my word “laugh” and when I think about laughing I think about the belly/ gut laughs where you feel like your whole body is bouncing up and down uncontrollably.  Or a game we played when I was younger we called the “HA game” which was not much of a game, but just something fun.  Everyone gets in a circle lying down with their head on their neighbors stomach.  Each person goes around and it goes in a way where each time the next person adds a “ha”.  So the first person says “ha”, the second “ha ha”, the third “ha ha ha”, etc.  This goes on until everyone is cracking up due to monotonous ha’s and such, at this point you realize how much your stomach moves while laughing seeing your head is being bounced up and down from the other person’s stomach.

So for this, I decided to have Laugh with the letters up and down.  I did this on paint by choosing a fun type face and did a large L to stand out then placed the a, u, g, and h strategically up and down.  I used a smaller fond for the other letters to provide for a contrast.  So here is my final result!

This Design Assignment can be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/word/

For this assignment, we needed to describe a word by using only a specific font that we felt illustrated the word in its own typography. One font that I am very pleased with is called Bebas. Naturally, it is an all-caps font and comes with a very thick figure, a figure that I felt expressed the word “BOLD” quite well.

Here is the Word assignment that is two points. I thought that it would be fun to illustrate a part of my character’s story using words and fonts. We were supposed to not use colors or graphical elements. I wanted to use the project as a way to introduce a aspect of my character’s story. I wanted to show the imagery behind the company that it attached to my character, Lukas Jones. The company is one that is responsible for sending him on journeys through time and space. They are however anonymous to him. The group communicates through message. These messages can be through wall writings, phone calls, paintings, etc. The only other communication he has with the group is a business card he gets during his travels. The card as a the company name on it. I wanted to use this project to show the name through font and what it means in accordance to the companies attributes.

First, the company is called Aquia Maxius. I was on the highway and was looking for interesting words when I found these two. The first word means “powerful and complete” while the second word is similar to Maximus which means “the greatest”. I wanted to use maxius because maximus is used frequently and maxius seemed to flow better with the first word. I used one font for the project. I used a font through the editing website fotoflexer.com. The font was called “Ethnocentric.” It is a very clean and bold font. I wanted to convey the power of the group through the font.

So, I wanted to do this assignment to convey the meaning behind the company I was going to introduce and use this font style for a later business card assignment.