Hello! My name is Holly and I am a Junior at UNO. I am majoring in PR and Advertising and hope to graduate in December of this year. I am starting this blog because I am in a class called Visual Communication and Culture so I will be sharing my views and hoping for input on anything we see and interpreting its meaning or meanings to find out why the visual things are the way they are.
My first comment about what is visual is - now that I have this blog started, I am making my first entry, but I don't like any of the fonts available. Why? Because I want something to fit my personality so you all can have a better understanding of who I am. By the font being different in some way that is pleasing to me, I know that you all could know just a little bit more about me. Also, when picking out the background templates for this blog, I was thinking, "Which is the most like me?" I want this blog to represent me because I will be sharing my deep thoughts on certain subjects and I want something that is going to show others who I am as a person and why I think the way I do.
These are just a couple very simple visual examples in my life that I don't exactly understand. I have never really looked into these kinds of things before. I don't understand most things that have hidden or underlying meanings. I usually take everything as it appears without looking into it further to find out what it is supposed to mean.
I would like to end this entry with a quote I found, written by Henry David Thoreau, "The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
I think your comment on fonts and personality raises an interesting question: How do we represent our personality in a pre-formatted medium with a limited number of options? My fiance and I struggled with this on our wedding invitations. Trying to find a font that represented the tone/feel of the wedding we wanted was very difficult for us. We even tried downloading non-traditional fonts (such as the Disney font because we're going to DisneyWorld for the honeymoon). But ultimately settled for something that looked close, and pretty, but maybe wasn't exactly how we wanted our wedding to be represented. Although, conversely, handwriting them all would've been awful and probably look less attractive. So maybe we willingly give up some of ourselves in the representation of our writing to aid in ease.
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