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Name Typography

Name Typography 

This was my first project of my junior year. The goal was to take your name and alter the text to portray an aspect of your personality. I began by creating a list of words that I thought described me best. Including things I liked to do and personality traits. After narrowing the word list down to only 12 words I began to sketch how I could change the text to convey my ideas. I also began looking on DaFont.com for specialized fonts. I selected my favorite sketches from each word to try to pursue in Illustrator. As I began to manipulate the anchor points of the text I made ,shapes, lines, and curves, to give off the vibe I was looking for.  After I adjusted all 12 I went through with a fine tooth comb and began to pick out things that I thought threw off what I was trying to achieve or could possible make it clearer, after changing these few details I was left with my final project! During the process I learned many things. For example, I learned how to properly move the anchor points.Also how to "clean up" your work which means using the pathfinder tool to cut out shapes instead of having several different unconnected shapes. If I had to do this project over again I definitely would have tried to push myself to create a bigger list of words from the very beginning so I had a broader starting point.   On the other end I would totally space the work out the same way as I did this time because it was very manageable and gave me plenty of time to critique myself. All in all, I learned how something so simple can create such a big picture which will be very useful as I continue on in the Graphic Design world.  

 My finished Product

  

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