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My senior year of high school, A brain injury ended my athletic career and I had to stop playing sports I loved. Today, it has been a long journey back but, I would not have survived without another constructive outlet that filled a void in my heart that sports once had. It was a gift that allowed me to make gifts with endless possibilities and cut out any and every shape I wanted. Receiving my Silhouette Cameo was a gift and a task all at once and I was grateful for it. The very first thing I used it for was a gift for my mentors in high school. The first, a Silhouette outline of Goofy, just on cardstock. With this, I spray painted a canvas silver, and then placed my goofy cut out on the silver canvas as a filler and spray painted again black. Once I removed the cardstock, I was left with Goofy himself. A gift I’ll remember giving forever and it would have never been a possibility without the amazing capabilities of my Silhouette Cameo Machines.
Typeface and silhouettes are two different forms of design with different histories yet, with both immeasurable impacts on today’s world. Silhouettes began their impact on the world as inexpensive ways for beauty and have evolved to corner the DIY market and the design world around us. The Black Letter Typeface
Black Letter Typefaces have impacted our world in the forms of communication, advertisements, and art.
                 Silhouettes are among one of the top DIY crazes in today’s culture, which lead to development of machines such as Circuit and Silhouette machinessilhouette cuts around an image leading the viewer to interpret the remain canvas. This was an art form cheaper than hiring a sculpture to come to your house or a painter. Popular in the middle class which has shown people for hundreds of years a simple craft and it has evolved into creating symbols with meaning.
                 The Black Letter Typeface had begun to become inheritably recognizable since its creation.  Words created with this Typeface today have different meaning then when utilizing other families of type. People trust this typeface. Prior to phone calls text messages, when things needed to be said, this was how. Used for the first printed bible. This post, used for the first printed bible is what people trust. Also printed is the Times newspapers in both New York and LA. 
                 Both art forms were created out of a desperate urge and need to communicate and collaborate with the world around us. Their impacts may be different but without them the world would not have some of their most iconic works of art. Both are known by different names to everyone Every silhouette, such as different typefaces have different meaning to everyone. An example to leave with is that We see this as an example in Western European culture's advertisements. 


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