At first glance, this project seemed fairly simple and self-explanatory. After throwing around different ideas for the design and placement of the word, I realized that there was more to this project than what originally met the eye. Our group had difficulties at first with coming up with a look for the word. We wanted to depict “contrast” as best as we could, but were struggling with what form of contrast we wanted to depict (contrast within the word as a whole, contrast within the individual letters, contrast with the size of the letters, etc.) We ended up doing a mix of everything. We had half of the word painted black with a white outline, the other half painted white with a black outline, and the T in the middle was half white, half black, and much larger than the rest of the word. We then placed the word in Allen Fieldhouse, half of it behind a glass window and the other in front of the window. I learned that when depicting something through design, you have to come at it from all angles in order to fully get across what you’re trying to depict.
