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from cultural enclaves such as Chinatown and Little Italy to it’s downtown urban scene, each area can be defined by a set of characteristics unique in their own way. From buildings and storefront windows to restaurants and various public spaces, each one of these aspects has an essence that can be captured by typography and design. Encouraged to explore Times Square, Williamsburg, Central Park, and Soho, it was easy to see a common thread in each of these neighborhoods. While Times Square was alive with lights, sound, smells and people, Central Park was more subdued with couples strolling along it’s paths, picnicking, and enjoying one another’s company. Williamsburg was brought to life with young adults leaving warehouses and coffee shops in paint-splattered shoes and jeans while Soho was a flurry of tourists, along with locals, shopping for the latest trends and lunching at chic cafes. This project consists of magazine cut-outs and scans put together in a series of four squares for each neigh-borhood to portray the feeling captured.

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Using the same typeface and three letters from the previous compositions, words have now

been added to the squares. The words chosen were wham, zip, and pop; they have no particular mean-ing, but were used because I believe they portray a sound just by looking at them and add to the over-all feeling. I did not worry about cutting off parts of words or letters but was more concerned with how these abstract forms interacted with one an-other. I also tried to allow the words to finish parts of the letter forms and visa versa. Another impor-tant aspect was to create negative space within and around the letters. In doing so, I used white words inside of black letters.

T1-02 Composition with letterformsand words

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In the third series of the compositions, text and a graphic element were added to create texture

and depth. The same typeface has been used as well at the letters and words. Some of the words and letters have been removed to create different patterns, but there is always an element present from each step. In many of the compositions I have put the text on curved lines and paths to give the grid a flowing look while in others I repeated the paragraph to give the black letters texture. Circles were used as the graphic elements to also add to the flow of various compositions. As more elements were added it was important to pay attention to po-sitioning. I also believe it was important to partially make out the forms while still being able to look at the overall square as an abstract composition.

T1-03 Composition with letterforms,words, text andgraphic elements

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Texture was the next step in the addition of el-ements to the compositions. Scanning objects

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Last was the addition of an image. I chose a key for it’s unique shape. Using various textures, let-

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