Why would you photograph the alphabet?
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 06:18PM | Kevin Kubota Well, I can think of a couple good reasons, at least for the folks who attended my workshop at WPPI last week: A creative whack to the head and the chance to win $1000 worth of goodies! As part of my program, I shared a project that we do at my Digital Bootcamps and our Italy workshops. It's a really fun way to see things different - things you normally would walk right past. It makes you smell roses that you never took the time to smell. I love the alphabet project because I have a ton of fun with it and my class always comes back amazed at how much fun they have and we see some wonderfully creative interpretations of our daily typography.
After showing a sample of the alphabet project to the folks at my seminar, I got a crazy idea to offer $1000 worth of prizes to the person who took the coolest set of alphabet images while at WPPI. I'm going to post them here in a few days and let the public vote on a winner! If you weren't at WPPI, sorry, the contest was limited to those who attended the program and captured their images while there. Check back in a few days to vote on your favorite!
Here's a sample of the alphabet project from past Bootcamp® attendee Josée Lafrance. She took these at the workshop.
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Reader Comments (9)
I totally was going to do that, but I forgot! Anyway, it was great seeing your presentation at WPPI :) I hope to make it to one of your bootcamps one day
Wow! I love this project. Thank you for the inspiration! :) Awesome!!! :)
Okay, Kevin, I'm in!
Took the challenge, and am STILL seeing letters everywhere I go. What a great way to train your brain to really see what's around you! Thanks for a great talk and challenge.
ABC's of Las Vegas
http://hankandwillie.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/abcs-of-las-vegas/
Count me in :)
This was fun and challenging at the same time, I never realized how difficult it can be sometimes to find shapes that resemble letters (you would think it would be easy, specially in Vegas of all places). "Q" took me the longest to find.
So here it is......
ABC's of Las Vegas
I have always LOVED this project! I even talked about my Disneyland alphabet when I spoke at the Kubota Image Tools booth at WPPI this year!!
so great!