[Design] H is for Hiroshima

DarkMage · Post by **DarkMage** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 2:16 am

This was for my graphic design 2 class a couple of semsters ago....the Proff wanted use to make an ABC book but not a childrens book...you know some kind of coffee table book...so I came up with this...I also have 3 other pages of the book but I can't find them.
Those are called
A is for Auschwitz
B is for Bloody Sunday
and R is for Refuge.

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 6:25 am

Can't see the graphic.

DarkMage · Post by **DarkMage** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 11:32 pm

FREAKING!!!....Okay I need to get like a real website and stop useing Yahoo BrifeCase....it worked for the preview!!

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 1:23 am

It would work in the preview because you were logged in and viewing the briefcase previous to posting, most likely.

FlakJacket · Post by **FlakJacket** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 1:29 am

Try using YahooGroups and posting direct links?

Kwyndig · Post by **Kwyndig** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 8:47 am

Heck, if it's not too big (2MB) I'll host it. Mail kwyndig@mchsi.com with the attachment.

DarkMage · Post by **DarkMage** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 4:28 pm

Thanks Kwyndig you'll be getting an email from thehatinthecat@yahoo.com

Kwyndig · Post by **Kwyndig** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 9:18 pm

DarkMage · Post by **DarkMage** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 5:20 pm

Thanks Kwyndig

Kwyndig · Post by **Kwyndig** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 2:22 am

NP, looks nice, btw.

DarkMage · Post by **DarkMage** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 8:34 pm

Thanks...and sugestions?

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 11:14 pm

Sure:

1. The text looks to be fairly low quality. I'll assume that that's simply an artifact of the JPG file compression.

2. I think the photograph is a poor choice. It's too busy; there's no well defined focal point, the perspective looks skewed.

3. The english used is broken. I don't know if that's intentional, but I would have written it like this:

"On August Sixth, 1945, at 8:16 in the morning,
the city of Hiroshima, Japan,
and seventy-five thousand of her citizens,
were obliterated
by an American atomic bomb."

I'm not a fan of the word "obliterated," though. It's too.. comic booky for my tastes, and technically, it means "To do away with completely so as to leave no trace." - you can clearly see in the picture that there are many traces of the city left.

4. I'd also add some sort of effect where the image and the black meet; fade the image to black, roughed up edges, something like that.

Gunny · Post by **Gunny** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 11:17 pm

I agree, I think the photo is too busy. to me it doesn't seem to convey the tragedy of all those lives lost. it looks like a tornado hit some town in Kansas instead.

DarkMage · Post by **DarkMage** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:21 am

Thanks guys...I see what you mean about both the image and the text...I think the text is how I got it from a site about Hiroshima...but I'll have to double check.
I'll try to find a "better" (better doesn't quite seem like the right word) picture.
I have serve space through verizon and as soon as I figure out how to put the pictures on there I'll be putting more stuff up.

Gunny · Post by **Gunny** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 3:21 pm

have you thought about looking for free fonts? installation is easy, then shutdown-restart your graphics program and it should be accessable unless you have to install the font in your graphics program as well. either way, it's easy peasy.

the right font can make a heavy statement even if the graphic is simple.

DarkMage · Post by **DarkMage** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 2:36 pm

Actual that was a free font :-D I didn't want anything to strong for the font because I wanted the focus to be on the image.

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:56 pm

Okay I may have missed this since I am tired but what was the idea behind this? Just oick a tragedy day at design class? Just curious.

DarkMage · Post by **DarkMage** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 11:32 pm

Serious Paul wrote:Okay I may have missed this since I am tired but what was the idea behind this? Just oick a tragedy day at design class? Just curious.

This was for my graphic design 2 class a couple of semsters ago....the Proff wanted use to make an ABC book but not a childrens book...you know some kind of coffee table book...so I came up with this...I also have 3 other pages of the book but I can't find them.
Those are called
A is for Auschwitz
B is for Bloody Sunday
and R is for Refuge.

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 12:08 am

Ah, thats kind of cool in a weird way. Thanks.