OUGD405 - Study Task 04 - Word Images

For this task I created a series of text images using the text editing program, Microsoft Word. These worked in a similar way to the Excel images in that I was altering text and pre-set shapes to create various images. For many of these I worked in a slightly more literal sense, for example, creating the forms of two models of electronic calculator, a calculator watch and the symbol for pi. Some of these did not work as well as the excel images, as the text was harder to manipulate because it did not have a set structure or grid to initially work with. These images take ideas and form from concrete poetry, which can be defined as 'poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed by visual means, using patterns of words or letters and other typographical devices'. However, in the future I will take similar ideas and processes from ascii art which uses text and coding to create images, which I feel will form clearer images.

Fig 1. The first abacuses were developed from beans, stones and bones.

Fig 2. Pocket and scientific calculators.

Fig 3. Casio calculator watch uses words
from one of the films it appears in.

Fig 4. The decimals of Pi.

Fig 5. The symbols for Pi using decimals from it's form.