February 24, 2017

In this assignment we had to choose from a list of opposite words, and try to illustrate each with type. Victory and defeat stood out to me from the list, and almost immediately I had the inspiration to have defeat slumping off the page. Executing this idea was much more difficult than I imagined, since I wanted the type to be small as well as falling off the page. There just seemed to be an overwhelming amount of negative space, so much so that it almost overshadowed the word. After much revision and playing around, I found a good balance between the negative space and the size of the word without making the word appear too “confident.”  I did the opposite for victory, and made it very bold and confident, and tried to make the letters appear as if they are celebrating.