Critical Thinking

Task 2

 Word as Visual Expression

In demonstrating my characteristic or profile, the words that i have chosen are :

1. Active
2. Ambitious
3. Playful
4. Helpful
5. Hard work

These words are given to me based on my studiomates point of view on myself. With a brief by Mr. Kamarul, we discussed in studio to voice each person's character instead of saying our own. As we all knew, each person has their own characteristic which will never be the same with somebody else. So,in this case I were required to design the word of character which to express myself.


So, my first word to express about me is :

 

The font of this word expression is ALLAN ROOSTER and as clearly shown,the typeface is Active. Style of this word is regular.

Definition of Active : a person that moves around and does so many things.

The color of this word is blue, orange, purple, dark blue, green and yellow. Each letters is positioning inconsistently to say that an active person is energetic and spry. Using these colors for the typeface due to represents participation in any activity in any situation. In short, the color is to say that activeness on anytime anywhere.

Moving to the next one :

 For my next characteristic which is AMBITIOUS, font that I have selected is BRUSHMARK. The word ambitious means that a strong desire to achieve something. My selection of color for this word is brown,and the color gets brighter from bottom to top. This is due to expressing the achievement is at the top. This word is designed as a hill for the reason on showing a higher dreams of achieving something in life. The style of this word is Regular. 

My next word that expresses Myself is :

 Hard Work. For this word, the design that i gave is a concrete hard look with a strong and stiff color to express the sustainability of the characteristic. Font of this word is HIGH JINKS. The definition of this work is doing something with full of concern and appropriate with no waste of time. The style of this word is regular.















The fourth word to express myself is the word HELPFUL.

  To express the word HELPFUL, i designed the word hanging by each letters relying on the letter before it to highlight that there is helpful element in the word. The colors are differentiated to show that being helpful not to specific and in a certain situation only. The font that I've used is AGENCY FB. The adjective of this word is "able to help in anything and any how" or "a handy person that never refuse to help".

The style of this word is Regular.

Last but not least of my Word Expression :

PLAYFUL

For this word as expression, The font that used are BRUSH OF KENT. The color for this word is to show that the playfullness  which the colors are blue, light blue, pink, purple, yellow and both green and light green. According to dictionary, it defines that playful characteristic is a lively and cheerful character. The style of this word is regular.

sketches during this task:

since each word has a typical meaning, a suitable font had to be selected to express the word which this might show the characteristic of a particular person by the way it is presented.

Reflection :

Characteristic that we can find in ourselves can be expressed through different type of fonts, design, color and features. Each characteristic can be designed by experimenting it in design terms. Playing with fonts and design of letters are helpful in many ways,for an example in creating a cartoon character, besides it makes visual communication to be much interesting.