Star Party

While keeping in mind the focus of typesetting and layout design from the previous week's journal (which I missed due to an absence,) this weeks' journal entry both addresses this theme and wraps up a personal project requested by my brother and his family. 

a gift for avalon

In March of 2015 my first niece, Henley, was born. When her first birthday came about, I decided to make a gift for her parents, since that kid has enough toys as is, and at one year old, she doesn't really care. I wrote a poem, "The You that You Will Be," along with some simplistic artwork to create a document to be framed and displayed in their home. The reception was extremely positive, and my brother requested a similar project for his second daughter, Avalon, who was born in August. 

"Star Party" is an original poem with original artwork drawn on a Surface Pro 3 utilizing Photoshop. Utilizing a flowing script for the body, the body is laid out at a roughly 45 degree angle with a balance between line spacing and filling the white space between the two "corners" of art. Given the work's space theme, a font that I felt evoked the popular culture surrounding space in the 1950s was utilized for the title, and the entire piece was overlaid with a dark violet gradient to accentuate the piece's theme of sleep.