COM106 Exercise

Based on the demonstrations and discussions in class you will be creating three visual adaptations of William Shatner's rendition of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.



The first design will use the first verse and will be designed using a single vertical axis of orientation:

Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone

The second design will use the second verse and will be designed using two vertical axes of orientation:

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone

The third design will use the final verse and will be designed using a diagonal axis of orientation:

Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Your job is to attempt to capture the emphasis and pacing of Shatner's performance with the way you use space, position, grouping, and scale. You will execute your designs in Adobe Illustrator and can use only one typeface -- Helvetica -- and may only use regular and bold.