For my third visit to Freedom House, we did a little bit of both hands-on and planning work. After we did some cleaning in the dining room and bathrooms, we met with Lydia to discuss upcoming possibilities for Freedom House and their Gallery of Hope. We figured out that they wanted to create a new logo, posters, social media photos and printed work to share information.
After meeting and talking, I created a couple sketches for Lydia (which still need to be scanned, posted and shared with her). I tried to incorporate a similar cursive/script for the word “gallery”, then thought about including “of hope” in either Futura, Helvetica or some sort of sans serif font. I hope to send her my ideas later today. If I get some sort of “go ahead” for the project, I’ll plan on redoing the script by hand, scan into Illustrator and do the rest of it with the pen tool.
I also think I will include a piece of mine to be featured in the gallery. I think it focuses on the “hope” part of the gallery’s name, featuring a smiling boy trying to catch a frog. I intentionally made it so that the boy would look to be more of Latino or Indian descent, making it a much more inclusive piece for those who live in Freedom House who are of a racial minority. I plan on printing multiple digital copies to give to the children at the homeless shelter.
