- What did you learn?: From this project, I learned the history of constructivist font and was able to apply this history and design into a poster.
- What was easy?: The easy part of this project for me personally was laying out and designing the poster.
- What was challenging?: On the other hand, I found it hard to start as I was interested in a variety of time periods for fonts. Furthermore, once I chose Constructivism as a time period I then had multiple fonts to choose from as a lot of the Constructivist fonts were well made. Lastly, I found it somewhat difficult to use Adobe InDesign for this project as I am somewhat inexperienced with the program as well as the fact that the program lacks some features prominent in Adobe Illustrator.
- How could your submission be improved?: My submission could have been improved by tweaking the Cyrillic Alphabet letters so that they fit better within their margins. I could have also probably leaned for a more constructivist look, but I was not sure how to exactly do that.
- How can the professor improve the assignment in the future?: One way for the assignment to be improved is to allow for more graphics within the project. Specifically in my case, I found it somewhat difficult to create my poster with a Constructivist feel as most art pieces within the Constructivist era had some sort of image symbolizing something along with the font such as a clenched fist or a single watching eye.
- How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?: Participating in this project has allowed me to grasp the skills needed to apply the knowledge I learned into future assignments through the main use of design. For one, I will be able to better design posters that I make and have better knowledge of font placement within posters. I have also learned to better implement contrast and size within my designs as these uses of space and color are highly prominent in Constructivist art.
- How did a specific reading, video or example inspire or help you?: Some examples of Constructivist art that help inspired some of the designs within my poster includes but are not limited to works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky.
