Poem Post

For this font poem project, I was really hoping to achieve a basic understanding of how the presentation type could truly effect the message it sends across.

Because of this intent I choose a few lines from a poem that truly effected me. I choose the the first few lines from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven". I choose this poem because it was the first poem that I read that really broke the traditional model of poems for me. So I figured it was only appropriate to use this poem for the first time that I wanted to brake the traditional model of using type.

The most challenging part of this whole project was trying to find the right typeset and the right positioning of the type set to accurately display the mood and emotions set by the poem. The only real way to solve this problem was to try, try, and try again. I had to go through countless combinations of using different font settings and font positioning to get a final result that I kind of wanted.

Despite the frustrations of trying to find the right type setting and positioning, it was very fun experimenting with the different kinds of font and seeing how they looked in different locations. This project is definitely a great learning experience and will greatly help for future projects.

Sadly, there is nothing I'm particularly proud of with this project. I feel as though I could have done a better job with it and that I could made it look better in the end. I wish I could go back and fix it up a bit, but unfortunately I cannot.

If I had more time for this project, I would have tried experimenting with more colors, layers, and filter effects. It would have been really cool to use some of the exquisite corpse techniques on this project, and I feel it could have produced a very stimulating image.