So Much to Take In

I wish there was a next button to make it easier to navigate instead of having to go back and forth, (unless I missed something and there was?).

One thing that I noticed is that many of the designs mimicked the words that the author highlighted. Like on page two it became a kind of a womanly shape. Page 27 uses a photograph/portrait as the backdrop when talking about an old English lover. I thought it was an interesting technique. In some of them, I can still distinguish some of the other words, but I didn’t want to try to read them because I felt like it would take away from the effect, which is strange for me because that is something I usually tend to do--decipher as much as I can.

I thought that using so many varied techniques could be a little distracting at times. It certainly made it more interesting, but it made me wonder what it would have been like with a little bit more consistency and how that would have changed it because there were some pages that didn’t seem to have any rhyme or reason. It may have been easier to take in if I didn’t have to go back and forth and could have gone through them all more seamlessly, too.

The use of texture, like we talked about, was interesting to look at to see how I would be able to apply it even visually with dotting, streaking, playing with colors, and those kinds of things to get different effects.

Some of the pages helped me get some ideas, but others seemed to be random. I just wondered if the author had some sort of plan entirely, or if it was selective; basically how it was all put together since they are all so different.