Haiku Poems

For this task we created Haiku poems with a different brief for each. From doing this I learned the importance of spacing, colour, and letter styling (bold, italics e.t.c.) for emphasising words and this will be helpful when creating impactful headlines for my magazine.

This is the haiku I chose to base all my designs around. I chose this because it was quite descriptive so I thought it would be easier to fit the style of type to it and use them to illustrate it.

Image 1: Placing one word in italics

For this design we had to choose one key word and emphasise it using italics. I chose 'stars' because I think it makes the statement stronger and is the only word in the haiku that makes sense in italics. The effect of using italics in the statement makes the sentence stronger and have a bigger impact on the reader.


Image 2: Changing size to emphasise a word and playing around with white space

In this design I chose to increase the size of the words to almost fill the page, and then decrease the size of 'whispering'. The massive difference in size makes a big contrast between 'whispering' and the other words making the size of the text relate to the meaning of the word.

Image 1: Experimenting with size, weight, shades of one colour, style (italics e.t.c), and letter/word placement

For this image I used three different colours to help emphasise certain words. I made night black to represent the darkness of night, and made whispering a lighter shade of blue to make it softer than the other words which makes it look subtler and quieter and illustrates the meaning of the word. I emphasised stars in italics as with the first design because this gives the sentence more impact when reading it. I also bolded it for added emphasis. I chose to keep the size of whispering decreased as with my last design but I moved the letters around to give them the effect of floating along the page to mimic the movement of a hushed whisper floating across the wind.


Image 2: Free Experimentation

For this design I was free to experiment with colours/sizes/styles/positioning however I wanted so i decided to recreate a nights sky as the poem is about summer nights. I also wanted the design to relate to the image of stars that the haiku describes so I wrote the words stars over and over again and played around with different letter sizes and scattered the words across the background to create the illusion of stars. I wanted this to contrast against the black so made it white to mimic stars and then made the rest of the text a dark grey so that it was just visible against the black but didn't fit for attention with the white text so that the design didn't look to busy and was easily legible. For the word whispering I made it a light blue to differentiate it from the other words and had the sizing going from large to small to mimic a whisper travelling across the wind and to show the hushed sound of it through the text size decreasing.