OUGD404 - Christmas Tasks
Pixel Art -
One of the benefits of designing for a poetry book is that there is a multitude of subject matter because of the variety of different themes and images in the different poems. This means that when creating images, individual poems can be examined for specific imagery.
The pixel art design for Leonard Cohen doesn't draw imagery from one specific poem, more so the general tone of the book. The yin - yang symbol represents Cohen’s Buddhist sand Zen beliefs and the themes of spirituality which subsequently appear in his poems, while the eyes depict the theme of ageing which Cohen writes about in a lot of his poems as well as depicting it in a range of rough self portraits in the book. He particularly emphasises the idea of the wrinkles and bags under his eyes, a clear indicator of old age.
The pixel art design for Pablo Neruda on the other hand depicts a cherry tree and is very representational of a specific line in the poem ‘Every Day You Play’ - “I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels and rustic baskets of kisses, I want, to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
The design for Cummings’ book of poetry is a fairly abstract interpretation of the line “I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”. It employs the use of the square pixels to communicate the difference in quantities stated in the poem, almost like an infographic, although obviously not exact in numbers.
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