I haven’t photoshop most of the pictures and chose my color theme yet. But the basic idea and gird is going to be like this.
I actually have more text prepared. Should I include all of them into the booklet, or shouldn’t? I’m not too clear on the text requirement.
Whenever we think of alphabet, the first thing comes to our mind would either be books, newspapers, or the internet. You know, those are the things that literately contain alphabet. However, this special project force us to “OPEN” our eyes and “FIND” the letter forms in something other than just “real letters”. So I used onions.
My lovely but smelly onion alphabet
First, I love eating. Food always makes me happy. And I also like cooking. It relaxes me from all those “non-stop coming” homework. As I was thinking about the assignment, I was cutting onions. And all the sudden, letterforms started showing themselves with the little onion pieces.
Well, as all of you may know, onion is not an easy thing to work with, so I did some research on “how to cut onions”. It gave a lot of different ideas of how to deal with the strong smell, and also how to “play” with them. By doing this project, I learned to see things differently, and of course, how to deal with onions. I smelled like onion for 2 days no matter how hard I tried to wash it off.
After this interesting assignment–finding alphabet around us. I realized that ideas are just simply sitting next to us. I love the assignment. It’s definitely an eye-opening experiences.
Finding the alphabet is not that hard, but creating them from the most ordinary thing is a bit challenging. My eye are opened for ideas around us. Sometimes, the most exordinary piece of work starts from the simplest thing.
Holding on to my onion idea is not easy because of vary reasons. For example, making them unique but somehow consistence. I think I successfully solve the problem by repeating some of the patterns. The other challenge that I had was the strong smell. It definitely made my brother angry because the apartment smelled like onion the whole day. But through the research I did, I was able to make the smell less strong.
I enjoy this project a lot, and I did learn quite a bit through it.
