While, pictures can capture the attention, words can convey the message. That is the main take away I got from doing this assignment. For this assignment ( worth four stars), we were required to design a poster that illustrates a line from our favorite song. This was hard because I’m one of those people who likes every song known to man and my favorite song changes day to day! But, after eliminating many ideas for what song I should use, I finally came to choose Kacey Musgrave’s song Biscuits because it has strong and positive message.

I came into this assignment thinking this would be easy. Boy did I swallow my tongue soon afterwords. There is a lot more to making typography than just typing words. I found out that the placement of the lyrics, even what color they should be can either complement or ruin the poster. The process was one of the most tedious part of this class so far. I used Pixlr as suggested by this post. In Pixlr, I set up my desired size of the poster, then I decided to use the gradient tool provided to add some more color to the poster. The fun part came in where you can “snazz” up the poster by using different brushes and stamps. I went a little stamp crazy, but overall I think the background turned out really good! Finally, Pixlr also has a text box tool to type in the lyrics, pick a font, and where to place the lyrics on the poster.

For this Design Assignment, worth 4 stars, we are asked to illustrate song lyrics from a favorite song by typography.  At first, I saw this and thought it would be simple, but my OCD took over, as did looking at it more in a design method.  I began by typing it up in Microsoft Word because that is something I know, so I wanted to try it out.  I was not thrilled with doing it through that, so after googling some, I found a blog post that gave me the idea of using picmonkey.com and having an image in the background.

I chose the song “Take Your Time” by Sam Hunt, because it is one of my favorites, and one that sticks out to me.  The song had a place in my heart before, but after seeing the music video, it is one that always stays with me.  As someone who had volunteered for a battered women’s shelter, the music video has to deal with relationship abuse and domestic violence.  Sam Hunt is clearly against it in the video, so I decided to pair up these lyrics with a sweet image of a couple, what I feel as though may be an ideal relationship for Sam Hunt.

By using picmonkey.com, I uploaded the picture and then added in the lyrics in black at two different fonts for most.  I put the “main lyrics” in a larger font, and points that it seems Sam Hunt is making.  By the use of different font sizes, it brings out the “important” lyrics, and allows for those more “filler” lyrics to let the important ones stand out.  I also changed the color of “Take your time” to white since it is the main lyric, the title, and shows the purity of the song.

Hope you enjoy!! Originally posted to my flickr: