Graphic Design

How do you get rid of widows and orphans in InDesign? I’ve tried looking for it in paragraphs styles but I can’t find an option like this.

After days of uncertainty, I found an article from my Readings 400 class that I thought would fit apropriately with my images. It is by Ralph Waldo Emerson and it’s about Art, Beauty and Nature. And basically as a trancendentalist, he believed in spiritual things and found beauty in nature and everything, even the ordinary. Also I’ve found a couple of other quotes from the book from other philosophers that were really great. These comps are really rough and no where near as amazing as those posted so foar but here they are. I don’t really have any specific questions, sorry brother franson. I’m still in my development phase so all the juices are still churning trying to figure out what direction I should go with the composistion.

I really like this picture because of all the yellow and dark brown/black contrast. I also like how the closthespin blends into the scene. It feels like the clothespin wasn’t so much placed among the flowers as found among them.

This photo is from my 4th session of shooting. I’m probably fond of this picture because I took it before the snow and cold came and destroyed all the flowers. Literally. So I really love the green, brown, and silver colors of this photo and how they bounce off each other harmoniously.

The first photo I chose is from my 3rd session. I really like the purples and blues in this photo. I also like the shallow depth of field and that so little is in focus.

My second photo shows a contrast between natural wood and metal and I like how different they are against eachother.

My third photo I chose because I like the crookedness and imperfectness of the clothespin. And that it is siting so solitary on the branch.

The objective of this project was to find an alphabet in an unconventional way. We could find the 26 letters naturally happening in nature, or create our alphabet with a material of our choosing.

After deciding I would make my alphabet from a specific material, my first challenge was deciding what material to use. The way I solved this was by choosing film because I thought it was something no one would think of  and that no one had done before. I followed the natural flow of the film with the swirls and loose movement when rendering each letter. This helped make each letter appear a little more “found” than appearing so manipulated by another.

Learning Summary

In summary, I found this assignment to be very challenging. I spent many long hours shooting and editing these photographs. A challenge in photographing these letters was that the film was coming out very dark and looked entirely black. I knew this film could be more interesting, it wasn’t coming out how I envisioned. So I photographed the film on the light table, attempting to solve the problem of not having enough color in the film from my first round of photos. I think the use of the light table was very effective in helping boost the color and making the film appear a more interesting to the viewer. Thus creating a successful project.