April's Design Theme

When I started thinking about doing some kind of weekly post / design / drawing / ect, one of the things I wanted to do with it was to explore the different areas of design that interested me.  I especially wanted to use it as a way of exploring the aspects of design and art that I was not as familiar with; things like character design, typography, interaction (or user experience) design, and other topics along those lines.

Because of how my life was at the beginning of the year, and how school usually tends to go, I wanted to make sure that the first few monthly themes were fairly simple and familiar, mostly so that I could get into the habit of doing it.  Now that school is starting to wind down for the semester, and I am more in the habit of creating the designs, I wanted to start moving into some of the more unfamiliar areas.

For April, I decided that it would be a fun challenge to have the emphasis be on Typography, and the use of text.  I have never done a great deal with Typography, but have always been fascinated by the many ways it has been used.  One of the other aspects I want to start incorporating into the designs, wherever possible, is some kind of message or story.  Often times it is the emotional connection to a particular design or work of art that causes people to really like it, and I think this is true regardless of the medium used.

So, in addition to using typography as the primary medium for April's posts, every design will have an underlying theme based on a basic emotion or feeling (such as fear, hope, love, and so on).  While I haven't completely decided on what the theme of each week will be, the theme for the first post will be "Hope".

Check back on Friday for the first of April's posts!