Documentation Book: Drop the Caps
For a semester-long project, we have to create and write our own original book on a document of a topic or something that we want to get more knowledge of for our personal interest. “Drop the Caps,” was done over the course of twelve weeks with over 10,000 words written by me and documented with over 300 photos of what influences my artwork and me. As an artist, I believe everything and anything should be the source for your influence to create your work. Therefore, in the process of creating “Drop the Caps” I spent one to two hours each day from building up the drop caps with a different medium using various sources of inspiration hoping that I could also challenge and teach myself about lettering which takes letterers years to master. I am not a letterer, but I wanted to try and experience it to become familiar with the typography because they are prevalent in all facets of design.
Theme: The overall theme of this book is to show the artists and designers of the later generation not to depend on what we call the “internet” too much. It is because the internet put us into this thinking that we can see everything in this world by just a click away and get inspiration from that way also. Real life experience will give you that official idea that no one hands to you, it lets you be formal and different, everything around us is our art tool. With this book, I intend to educate the readers about our surroundings in relation to being able to use them as tools. I hope you could also be inspired by our surroundings because it is much more than we think. I also hope that you, as a reader, can learn about the use of drop caps and how important it is still today.
Fall 2018; Font Used: Baskerville and Georgia; Book size: 6” x 9”
