Eurieka! I finally found the Spirograph man that one of my tutors told me about. Here he is in action. Very enjoyable.
I sketched this using only one single line for each hand, just like the real wire hands I made previously. Afterwards I added colour, I picked primary because they make all the others colours. I imagined that they will fly off when the hands bang together and that each individual clap would produce a unique colour.
I found this game while doing research for college. It looks exactly like the illustrator graphics I made only this flash program does the whole thing for you. A word of warning...it's very addictive. Try it!
I am reading a book by Steven Heller at the moment, called Design Humor and it talks about how simple design can be more powerful and effective than something that is over-designed. It made me think about how I could represent the word clap using only type. This is what I did. I tweaked the brackets a little so they looked narrower at the top.
Since I've been thinking of words and fonts that represent the sound of a clap, I started thinking about the old comics. I remember finding it very funny when a superhero was beating up the villain there were always words like "biff" and "pow" in zigzag callouts. This is one on my hand clap theme with a word not often used. If you're wondering why the Hulk is clapping, well it's to stop a building from collapsing with the shockwave it makes (obviously).
While in listening to a talk on ceramics I notice how the audience sounded when they applauded the guest speaker at the end. You can distinctly hear one clap on its own for a split second and then it builds to a huge round sound before petering out back down until you hear one final clap. I made a quick watercolour picture of this.
I made another piece using Illustrator and I hope to print it on acetate. The white part will be transparent and I want to see what it looks like if it's back-lit.
Here are some first attempts (just to show I've been busy).
To continue on exploring the sound of clapping hands, I made an image using InDesign to visaully show the sound. The image looks like a graphic equaliser display from far away but when you move closer you can see that it is made up of words. The words are take from various dictionaries and are all related to the meaning of the word "clap". What I like about this is that when you try to read it, you have to tilt your head and this is how people hold their heads when they are listening closely to something.
I am moving onto sound, the sound of clapping hands and how I can visualise that. I've been looking at the artist Susan Morris because her work is similar to the last piece I did and I came across one in particular that reminded me of a graphic equaliser. Later when I was looking for a phone number in the phone book I noticed how it also looked like the image made by an equaliser.
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