Colour

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.

Time Lapse

While doing some research for my essay, I came across an old photo on the web of a fencer in action. The photo had been done by superimposing the same fencer as he moved around. It made me think about doing the same thing with clapping hands.

Brackets

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.

The Hulk

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). 

Applauding Cast

I'm trying to capture the busy loud movement of applauding. Yesterday I built a clay mould and and made a plaster cast. I really like this piece it looks like lots of hand frantically moving. I am going to to this to make a wax cast that will be the reverse to see how it looks.

  

TypoClap

At my last tutorial we talked about typography and using the dictionary words I used in the sound graph in a different way. This is what I did with them. 

Earlier on I worked on individual words and how they might look.

Clay Hands

I've been trying to make a series of the plaster pieces but when I went to fill some balloons it didn't work out. I'll need to recruit a helper. Instead, so the whole episode wasn't a waste of time, I made a clay one.