I'm getting married in December so now I live and breath wedding details until then. It adds great stress to an already over stressed load of work and school. The first one is a list of decisions I have to make, lined up like a cake. The bride and groom are blissfully happy when the day finally arrives, taking their place on top. The second is dealing with stress again, a giant mouth being fed wedding cake and liking it. I outlined the face in stress, fun, love; the vicious cycle I endure everyday. I'm very happy to be getting married, but Vegas is looking pretty good at this point. I don't have a particular reason for choosing the type, the first is in Myriad and the second is Gill Sans. I found them both equally reasonable to work with and make designs. I like the concept of my images but I'm just wondering if more is needed.
The wedding cake is the stronger composition here. It perfectly represents the stacking of stress you described and the happiness at the top. I never thought of wedding cakes representing that before! Clever use of type to form embracing characters on top and aww they even form a heart! I think the characters on the top may be a little too big. They are overpowering the concept you are building with the cake. I’ve never seen wedding cake figures that big, they would crush your cake. You wouldn’t want a smushed wedding cake. You have only listed a few things you needed to do before the wedding, could you have listed more? I’m not a fan of the mouth eating cake concept. I get it, but I don’t think it’s executed as well nor is it as visually interesting as the wedding cake. The chin and mouth look off to me.
ReplyDeleteOf the two I like the second one best (the wedding cake with the bride and groom atop it). I immediately thought ‘wedding’ cake when I saw it and like how the amount of stress on each level seems to decrease as you get towards the happy day. However, I might like to see some different things written into the different layers rather than repeated. I’ve never planned a wedding before, but I’m sure there’s a bit more and it would make it a more visually interesting to have more variety in word length. Keep the bridge and groom though. That was a neat idea crafting them out of the ‘I’s and I like how when put together they form a heart. It’s very sweet and creative. But for the size, consider their importance to the composition. Is the ‘big day’ the largest thing leading up and the point or is it all the stress? I’d try scaling the figurines down and making the cake a bit bigger to give a little more emphasis to the stress you’re trying to get across.
ReplyDeleteThe top one is good – the face eating the cake – but my first problem was that I didn’t immediately see that triangle as a piece of cake. If you choose to go with that, which I personally would not, I’d suggest reworking the piece of cake and give it a more 3-dimensional look, as if it were actually slice from your wedding cake. That isn’t say it needs all those flowers and scalloped edges, but I would like to see a hint of perhaps a layer or otherwise a top and side.