i recently watched ji lee‘s creative morning talk and i thought his student exercise of illustrating a word’s meaning typographically using really only the word would be a fun little thing to do here and there. having never gone to art school, i never got an exercise like this and i guess i wasn’t smart enough to just try and do something like this without having heard about it first. anyway, if i don’t have time to ponder illustration friday’s topic as much as i want, i may try and do these typographic doodles.
here’s the talk, if you’re interested:
2011/03 Ji Lee from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.
just a quick little ditty for illustration friday this week. the theme is soaked. i thought i’d take a different perspective on the meaning.
the topic for illustration friday this week is surrender. my first thought was to do something more suggestive or passionate but ambiguously so. i thought if i depicted someone’s hand tightly gripping someone else’s hand that might depict surrender if the other hand were limp. at the same time, a tight grip on someone else might suggest conflict as well, where people tend to surrender. and, according to hollywood, conflicts that begin like this, seem to somehow end up in the extreme surrender of pants coming off.
but with what is going on in egypt right now, that just got me thinking about conflict in general. these things seem to seldom resolve in stalemates and only one side seems to ever benefit and that’s only if the conflict comes to a close. that last little tidbit got me thinking about the the never-ending feud between israel and palestine. it seems so much more extreme considering neither side seems willing to surrender or back down. i’m not very versed in the history of that conflict or even the present state but it doesn’t seem to me that either side is tremendously “stronger.” it seems like someone will have to let go to end the cycle.