EMILY FIELDS09:

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RJTHOMPSON EMILY FIELDS

Project Title:Tight with Heat and Memories

Media Used: Adobe Illustrator CS4

Research Criteria:Research limited to Emily ’s collection of poetr y and personal inter views with the author re-garding the subject matter and intent of her work .

Target Audience:Poets, writers, and artists ages 22-30.

Concept:Give Emily ’s poetr y artistic visual representation through typo-graphic solutions.

Solutions:Emily Kathryn Fields is an intellectually productive writer, but only focuses on her words exuding a particular emotion she may be feel-ing as a result of action or inaction that has occured in her life. A vi-sual representation of her work had never crossed her mind– though her words were always prime for such a treatment. The direct-mail designs were completed with her artistic perspective very closely regarded, as her day-to-day involvement with the project. Misrep-resentation, as is such the case with such personal works, requires great focus and attention to detail in order to be personally accurate.

Integrating her words with that of type-based images provided for a rather unique, unconventional promotional ef fort for her work , which ironically used printed solutions to drive people towards her online blog/website. The original choice of printing these designs on newsprint, though economically viable, did not provide for the clarity and distinction that her words rightfully deser ved.

Small Town for City Girl

Small Town for City Girl

ticktockbiological

clock

the whispers begin instantly

, sh

e

is soon the county whore, gr

abbi

ng

at anyone who will have p

ecul

iar

(a noun) as his every

day.

such strange things, a humor that

transcends their splay of normalcy.did you hear? it is

their daily doctrine—it is invading, a shark-like shape

bugging telephones and snacking on the shards of life

still left. i heard is the next shattering of dignity

it will counteract th

e last fable, but soon grow

exponentially, like the orange’s mold (this is not a cure) until she was dancing like a pregnant brontosaur. and, it is true that she is sleeping with a ghost.

egg

emptyvoid

destroy

x

i wrotethis poem

(Left)The solutions were intended to be folding pieces contained in an envelope, but the artwork was so compelling and representative of the Emily that I implemented it for use in the envelope.

RJTHOMPSON EMILY FIELDS

RJTHOMPSON EMILY FIELDS

RJTHOMPSON EMILY FIELDS