THE DAY I WAS BORN

01 03 1965

103965

12345678 912345678 9

Fieldwork 1 (DUE TUES.)Fill up a minimum of 1 sketchbook page per number in your birthdate, experimenting with different font forms for the number. So, for example, I would have one page of 0’s in which no two zeros are alike, one page of 1’s, all different, one page of 3’s, and a page each of 9’s, 6’s and 5’s. For me a MINIMUM of 6 sketchbook pages filled with different forms. At this point do not worry too much about evoking your birth season. You are primarily going for quantity. Push the abstraction to the limit. You will turn in your pages with the finished project.

Fieldwork 2 (ALSO DUE TUES.)Do several thumbnail compositional sketches based on the number forms whose shapes seem to evoke your season make sure that your numbers are cropped on all 4 sides.

Fieldwork 2 (ALSO DUE TUES.)Pay special attention to the negative space, overlapping and the dynamics. Be very wary of getting too literal and “molding” your number shapes into symbols of your season.

Fieldwork 2 (ALSO DUE TUES.)Pay special attention to the negative space and the dynamics. Be very wary of getting too literal and “molding” your number shapes into symbols of your season.

Symbols, however, can be helpful guides to provide compositional ideas.

analogous

triadic quadratic

double split comp.split comp.

push value& intensity!