Font-astic

The next thing of particular interest was our typography project which started with a pairing of minds to discuss personality traits and excercise our judgmental skills in order to try to convey a persons pysche and persona into an alphabet using a generic typeface only, and how we could manipulate it to do our will!

After an intense week of being lost and oblivious to the answers before me, I finally clocked how only certain words out of the 10 that we came up with to sum up someone I hardly knew as a person, could be interpreted into the typeface.

I stuck with stubborn, able and willing, then came up with this delicious font! I used times new roman as my basis then just used geometric lines to convey a sense of rigidness and stability in order to meet my end means. Rebecca was my partner and  she came up with the one on the right, i thought she relfected my persona really rather well, picking up on my overtly sociable self, with hints of eccentricity, energy, and how loud I am. Overall i found it a really good brief once i settled into it!

S'been a while...

Since i last posted a bit of blather, which is really quite bad of me considering we have now accelerated through and still contending with conceptual connotations of colour, bemusing bereavements of bodies of text and all that jazz!

Thought id start with the colour walkway, our group was assigned to blue, one of the very important colours as it is primary. All groups had to collect 10 blue objects then using our current seminarical knowledge of on colour, arrange them in a way that best reflected the colours transition to the next step of colour progression, via showing the objects spanning out like a colour fan.

After we did this our group (along with some guidance from Amber!) decided that the best way to visually compose colour transition and the subtle addition and subtraction of colour would be to connect all the groups together to form a "Colour Path" that almost enlightened any viewer that happened to cross it.

Liebe Totallich Fantastich!

Critical Spookies

This little fella was made in critical studies on my note pages.

He looks a tad confused with the ethics of book reading! Oh my! what a silly skull fiend!

"Epitome of Undiscovered Glyph Structure"

I was bored, and this came to mind, just a little dabble on the old editing software and here it is, the "Epitome of Unanimous Glyph Structure".

And you will know us by the trail of blue.

The colour trail was excellent, after extensive collecting of blue objects, we composed them into various spectrums regarding different tones, for example if it had green in it, or was pale etc.

We worked in groups to help define these "wheels" and then we created THE TRAIL OF COLOUR INDUCED MADNESS! . . . sort of.

These are a few of my finals i used for

the last brief we did on representing 

a word from the, - I hate this word - 

"randomizer" and then tried to 

represent it by only using existing

typefaces and our own methods.

I mainly used photography as

you can see, but alot of the designs

were hand made.

Rather good project, onwards and 

outwards!

Fontastically reassured

The wall of letterformation information gathering, hunting down any shape we saw, and capturing it via sketch, rubbings, and the odd fishing rod, or in some cases, nets.

Soon after this, Ollie and my good self decided that pestering Roger in printmaking would be the best solution to discovering how letterpress works.