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 The logo I chose for myself a wave with half of a sunflower behind it. I chose this because I love the ocean, I grew up on the beach so it is a place of peace for me. It reminds me of life because there can be days it is completly calm, or days where it is dangerously rough. I chose to do a sunflower behind it to connect it with the nature of life on land. I think the sunflower allows it to relate it to more inland places and people, allowing everyone and everything to be connected. 

I chose to do an hourglass shape for my calligramme. I did this, because in my letter I talked about how when I was younger all i wanted to do was grow up and stop being a kid. Looking back on it now I only had so much time as a kid and I want to go back. But only there is no going back only forward and I need to take my time with who I am now. For this project I used the pen tool to create paths. I then used the anchor tool to create curves to fit the shape of the hourglass. I also used it to create a shape in the middle to warp text within that shape. Then I used the text tool to put sentences from my letter to both my past self and my future self that stuck out most for me.  This is my letter:  Dear little me, I remember what your life was like right now, sitting in third grade next to the new girl in  town. You made a bunch of new friends in your class and went on interesting field trips. The next year you would be going into a new school with the bigger kids and I kn...