This collection of prints by Therese Sennerholt Design caught my eye with their simple, yet powerful nature. Each piece offers a few words of wisdom displayed in a high-impact way.
Working in an industry where graphics are the main form of communication, the power of words is something I've started to rediscover through writing. There are an endless number of ways to interpret one sentence, or even one word, which is part of the charm in these lovely prints. The messages portrayed, while all relatively famous quotes, hold unique meaning for each of us and look fabulous on top of it all.
Images: Therese Sennerholt Design via 79 Ideas
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Great idea! I have also started framing quotes and now plan to get special quotes/lines illustrated and then framed.
I got a good one: If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass on the ground.
Affirmations make for very bad art. Even a cheap Monet print from Walmart is more profound than this sort of vapid "You go, girl!" cheerleading.
Which is not to say that quotes can't make decent art. Just not THESE quotes.
I agree with Blandwagon. You need to be very original. Avoid cliché quotes and "family phrases"
I agree and disagree - a trite, clichéd quote might still have powerful meaning to someone. "Imagine" has and will always be very special to me.
So long as the quote/phrase has meaning to YOU, it's art.
A long time ago I was really into this idea and sat my boyfriend down to show him a snippet of a Mary Oliver poem that I wanted to display - in some way- in our shared home. The line was "Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"
I asked him what he thought and he read it again, looked at me and said, "Will you marry me?" I married him, but never pursued the project. I tend to move away from a design idea if it becomes too much of a "movement" - but I think that if the meaning is significant and pleases you, makes you think, gives you pause or makes friends say, "wow" - go for it.