Typographic Transformation Seminar Task

Typographic Transformation

During a seminar we were set a task to undertake where we had the choice to either create an illustration or animation to make a typographic transformation where both words are opposite to one another an example of this is hot and cold or light and dark. I chose to do an illustration for this task. my initial idea were to use the words 'Life' and 'Death' and using these words, depict an illustration about trees and their life span, beginning with a seed as it sprouts to a plant or tree eventually loosing all of it's leaves and dying. I created a rough design that provided me with a basic shape and intention, the roots spell out life as the canopy would spell death I initialled intended on creating an illustration of this using either Adobe illustrator or Photoshop.       

Developing upon this session I in fact changed the idea to something a little more simplistic, although the life to death design is a potential idea I much rather wanted to illustrate something more subtle and simplistic. I chose to illustrate the words light and dark, using a simple vector style I chose to split the image in half by having the top half black to resemble dark, illuminating the letters with white, and the opposite for light, the turnout of this design went rather well however the part where both words drain to other aren't aligned, if i were to recreate this illustration that would be the main aspect that I would redesign. Below is the Digital illustration that I created for the seminar task.