I used photoshop to add colour to my photograph and I made a compilation. I was thinking it could be Andy Warholish if I kept them all the same size, so I re-sized and layered them. The effect is pictorial and the colours look good together.
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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