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Page 1 : Actual Sand

Final Editing "Beach Sand Poem Visualization Book"

            In my poem visualization book, I wanted to emphasize that feeling of being a kid and remembering life. Many people when they are young go on a lot of family trips, many to the Jersey shore if they live nearby. So what I wanted to accomplish in the book was to install images that are reminiscent of the beach and the shore area, that go along with the poem, “Beach Sand”. I wanted to first go along with the imagery of the poem, but also include images you might have taken if you were at the beach. Since I live at the beach, I am used to seeing vacationers. Most of the people visiting take a lot of pictures at the beach and play with the sand; overall they are very excited to be there, and I wanted to include this feeling and memory in my book. I also included a physical part of my book. I placed a real beach sand covered page in the front of the book for the reader to interact with. I believe this interaction with sand really puts the reader in relation to the poem and what it is all about.

            I chose the specific book structure of a leather lace bound (appx.) 4 ½ in by 6 ½ in book so I could play off of the idea of postcards. Most of my images are 4 by 6 inches and they can also be seen as postcard images you could buy at the beach and send to family, friends, or for collecting. I wanted to keep with a beach color palette so I chose a light crème-sand paper for the front and back covers, a crème cardstock paper for the pages, and natural colors found in the beach images. I chose brown leather lacing because it complemented the book well. The structure relates to how I view the poem because when I personally think of the sand I think of the beach and being home, while I also realize that so many people come to the beach on vacation. Because of this tourist aspect, I decided to have the postcards as an aspect that both the tourist and myself can relate. I really like how it turned out.

            For the images and typography in my book, I first did a photo shoot to receive the images for my book. I went to the beach and took many different poses relating the beach and sand theme. I edited the photos in Photoshop, set the opacity lower for most of the images, and then transferred them into illustrator to add the text. I added text on paths that I drew and manipulated some text that I wanted to stand out more than others. Some text I did not want on a path, and I just did type work in Photoshop. After the illustrator files were done, I opened them in Photoshop and converted them to jpegs. I then put all of the jpegs together on a (2)12x18 document and printed on the pphaser.

            I constructed the book by making the covers out of cardboard and then covered them with a thick crème-sand colored cardstock paper. I cut all of the actual pages in a crème cardstock, and then punched holes in the left sides of al of the papers and covers. I used aerosol spray adhesive to attach my images to the paper, which was very effective in the polished look of my book. I bound the book through the holes with brown leather lace, and also in the back is a light brown hemp string with beads and a shell on it, which also relate to the book.

I used : Bauhaus 93 Reg and Handwriting-Dakota Reg as my fonts.

Self Visualization Right Panel

Self Visualization Left Panel

Self Visualization final concept

In  progress on this project i ultimately decided to incorporate the image of myself through the use of polaroid pictures, camera lenses, a polaroid camera, a bright cloud filled sky and hands of other people. I wanted to include the concepts that i only care what i think about myself, and that i ultimately control what i see and how i want to portray myself.The use of other's hand trying to cover my face in the pictures is showing that although people see my in their own way, i control still how i want to see myself. The left panel shows how i also incorporate my love of photography into how i see myself, for a camera includes a lense. i often symbolize another lense from a camera as my other eye, because in everyday life i often imagine and position how i view things as if i were to take a picture of it. i used a little bit of illustrator for some graphics in this project, took my own photographs, and used mostly photoshop.

Illustrator Excersive