Weather Report

The purpose of this assignment was to create a motion piece in After Effects that effectively displays the weather reports for 4 cities over one weekend. We were also required to portray these weather reports in 3 different typographical systems based on the concept of LATCH (location, alphabet, time, category, and hierarchy). I first organized my weather reports by location, then reorganized it by time. In the reorganization I chose to keep a pink color as the highlight. This pink not only emphasizes the days of the week in the second section, but also draws attention to the names being alphabetized in the third. The third section is based on the LATCH system of alphabetizing and the information reorganizes accordingly.

Kitchen of Meaning

This poster was created for a fictional design exhibition called the Kitchen of Meaning. We all picked a word from an assigned list and then had to create a poster that is performative of the word. We were required to include the name and information of the exhibition as well as the names of everyone in the class. The word I picked was metonymy. The definition of metonymy I worked from was; "the act of naming something by one of its attributes." I used images printed on velum to simulate the action of naming. I pulled one significant attribute from each person, vectorized it and printed it on the velum. I also labeled each section of type with one of its attributes. For example the section with the female names are labeled with "chicks" and "skirts."

Black Squares

This is a smaller motion project leading up to the larger motion project depicting weather reports. For this project we were to pick 3 words from a list and depict them using the motion of 4 black squares. My words (in order of appearance) were playful, tension and order.

Blue Squares

This is an exercise that we did in advance type as a way to practice basic motion skills in After Effects. This exercise was a basis for our larger motion project involving weather reports.