With the help of a message to my future self in 20 years I created a calligram with those specific words in it, where I created a visual image related to the meaning of the words from my message themself. In my message to myself at age 40 I talked about my goals that I am trying to achieve right now, where I later on decided to make an image of me thinking in big speaking bubbles that reflects on my big dreams. My inspiration is not only myself but also from Disney where their goal is to make people dream big and never give up, but I also decided to make a Disney inspired dress on myself due to the fact that I love Disney movies. In my design I wanted to show as much of my personality as possible because my message is to myself, and that’s why I chose to work with my favorite color pink and different shades of it, as well as blue when I was talking about my dreams.
Everything started with me scrolling thru my camera roll to look at myself, who am I, and what’s my goals. After that I started on my sketches where my inspiration came as said from Disney and myself. I worked in Adobe Illustrator which is a vector graphics editor and design program, and after getting my hands on the tools I finally came up with a great design that my message would fit perfectly. I started off my using the paintbrush tool to make the lines for the dress and I finished everything else up with the pen tool to make sharper lines. To later on add my text onto the lines I used different type tools, for an example the area type tool and the type on path tool. It created a cooler illusion by using different type tools. By using “envelope distort” and “make object to top”, I made very unique designs for my whole image. Something I learned during the process is that working with layers and especially naming them helped me a lot.
I definitely thought this was a very fun project due to the fact that it described me and I had open hands to do whatever I wanted to, and what I usually say to these kind of projects is: Your imagination sets the limits.
I also made some other calligrams just for fun, example the smiley that also represent me because its made with my favorite song that my best friend wrote and it makes me super happy, that's why I put it in a smiley. I also made a champagne bottle where my inspiration is from a tapestry in my dorm.
I added my message and my sketch in a file down below, as well as my other calligrams.
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