Graphic design - Poetry

This exercise was all about taking a subject matter and creating something poetic from that. In this instance the concept was movement and I chose to narrate the idea of an airport in the morning.

Here is the idea that I came up with: 

Location - Airport/Sky

Time - As the sun is rising, the sky is peachy. Dew.

Light source - the glow of the sun, flashing wings of a plane.

Details you see - echo's of an announcement

                         - families fighting over a bag of food

                         - birds flying

Combined:

An airport in the morning,

the glow of the sun and flashes from plane wings. 

The sky is peachy.

The dew glitters.

Echos of missed flights ring through sleepy silence. 

I tried to make the poem as simple and pretty as possible whilst accurately describing the environment I had thought up.

Our group then combined all our ideas to create a single poem all about movement: 

The combination of our phrases creates an effective and dramatic piece which Atlanta copied up beautifully. 

Previously I hadn't put much thought into creating text to incorporate into graphics as I just thought that the role of the designer was to arrange these into a pattern as the brief specified. However it is now evident that text has to be created an manipulated in ways other than just moving it around on a Photoshop document as words can be powerful and beautiful. They are the essence of graphics and cant be taken or written down lightly without thought. 

 Words are able to generate a certain atmosphere and image that is valuable in conveying a desired message to the reader which can make or break a campaign.

After choosing a poem myself called Happiness and analysing the words and feelings felt from it, I created a few ideas on how these words could be changed into graphics through typography (see sketchbook). I was pleased with my result however I feel that there's a glass ceiling in place when it comes to typography for me as I find it hard to look past the normal boundaries of text. This is sure to improve with practice however at the moment I have no prior experience with the typography aspect of  graphics as I have only previously experimented with images. Just because I found this task difficult however doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it, it just means I need more exposure and practice in this area to broaden my perspectives and open my eyes more.