Visual Language - View Finder Exercise.

Today's Visual Language workshop we were looking at a learning about anamorphic design, where images and/or type are legible from only one view point.

We split into groups and within the groups we chose a letter to make anamorphic. My group chose the letter K and we made this large scale letter form to begin with.

The letterform had to fit inside a view finder about the size of an ordinary photograph.

Here we used the stools and a cardboard box we found in the studio to attach the coloured card. It was easy to adjust it when working in a group as one person could stand at the view finder and direct the rest of us. We took turns doing this.

Big K.

Little K.

The Big K took most of our time to get accurate so we went for a smaller second one which was done quite quickly using a sketch book, a plastic pen case and a folder as the support for the green card. I find it really fascinating how the scale of something can affect how you view the world and spaces around you.

Medium K.

We then went on a made a third K which was a size between the large and the small one we had already made, but this time we tried changing the position of the view finder.

Shifting the view finder from an upright landscape position to a birds eye view changed how we saw the environment. We built the new K going down towards the ground using various sized tables and more cardboard boxes to support the green card.