A.Yongxin Li, Divenire, Ludovico Einaudi

B.The whole concept behind this picture is evolvement. The music is composed by many sets of changing, like the climb of the scale, or the strength and weakness of the piano. It feels like something that is experiencing a process of evolvement.Though it sometimes feels hesitating and afraid, it keep going to the destination, no matter the result is good or bad. The process means much more than the ending, and ta the ending, no matter what will happen, it will face it peacefully.

So I create some sets of evolvment as well. To make each set more clear, I used Gestalt Theory Similarity most. And I also use some continuity in the top and left sets. Most the the characters I used was cursive English Characters so that it looked more fluent and can the audience can feel a sense of movement.

C.I have recreate my poster for many times, and the first version was totally different from this one, from the understanding to the music to the poster’s looking. My biggest failure was that at first my poster was even too simple to be considered as a finished one. And the most significant success I think is the combination of T, V and the repetition of o. I used this combination to create the effect of dripping.

D.I will learn more about how to use illustrator and consider the balance of composition. And I will use more Gestalt theory if possible.

Yongxin Li-9

1.

• The aliens’ writing language are different from their speaking language. In their language. one grammar has two dimension. It’s guessed that writing and speech may play such different cultural or cognitive roles that using separate languages makes more sense than using different forms of the same one.
• The writing system of the aliens is a semasio-graphic writing system. It conveys meaning without reference to speech. There’s no correspondence between its components and any particular sounds.
• Though the spoken language of the aliens has no written punctuation, its syntax was indicated in the way the semagrams were combined. There was no way to slice out subject-predicate pairings neatly to make sentences.
• Word order meant next to nothing in their speaking language. Also, There was no preferred order when reading the semagrams in a sentence.
• They already know what they will hear or say before a conversation. However, language is still necessary for them as a form of action.

2.

    ①The aliens has a simultaneous mode of consciousness. They are aware of thongs happened in the past, right now, and in the future at the same time. Therefore, speech is a bottleneck for them because it requires that one word follow another sequentially. So they has developed a different writing system that the order of words don’t make sense. It shows how the consciousness influence the way of communication.

   ② For human beings, someone deaf or mute can use some sign language to communicate, such as ASL that is mentioned in the novel.