Analogue Communique 2D: session 1

this worksho s al abut creating our own typography, we were first shown some different types of typoraphy for example more block bold, funtion type compared to some more illistrative ones. persnally i love the effect of illistative type bt i have never been very good at that sort of thing, having reallised this i plan to do a letter a day, to learn and progress in my drawing abilities. doing this will make me more creative, imaginative and illistrative, imporving my work over all and epecially heloing in my charecter design class.

before starting to develop type we spend some time thinking of what sentence to do the type in. we were gven the starting point of I am... and we had to think of words and phrases to follow. we were encouraged to think creativl and not just write happy or sad or angry, thinking about this i started with things like design, creative, innovative, original. but i didnt think these were original' enough. so i started to think outide of the box first more obvious like her, around, human an then came across some interesting ones like, invisible, an identity, in the moment. this was one that stuck and i thought said a lot about me as a person...

here is my mind map for initial ideas...

for years i worried about the future and stressed about what was going to happen but over the past year i have realise that i need to do the exact opposit. live in the moment and think about whats happening now, so this really related to me and i wanted to make sure that whatever i was gong to write did exactly that.

we were then gven some grid with 16 charecter spaces to work with, you coud stick to having the charecters seperate or they could be joined, i chose to do both in some ways.

for part of some outside work for a company i had thought of some typoraphy tht involved a 3D effect without having the flat face to represent it. so this was my first exprement. i started with block san-serif capital letters and the effect i got i was happy with, however the problem i had was that because i was so happy with it, i had a block and didint rally know what else to write.

my first typeface.....

i asked about these types of blobk an the tutor said somehting that i will take on board, tht it dosent have to be a diffrent idea just a different way of dealing with teh same idea. so i started to develop different typefaces with the same 3D technique using serif writting thinner writting and also lower case. i tried different drections in which the 3D would go, and this reallly helped.

here are my two other typefaces...

i found the thiner, serif font more effective than the thicker bubble effec typeface, i think the bubble typeface looks childish, although i am glad i tried this out as an exprement, it means that i now know htt i dont like this kind of typefac, however i do still prefer the block capitals one.

usually when doing typography i dont enjoy it i find it difficult and time consuming, however when i actually do it i find i can come out with some good concepts.

one idea that i tried was this one below...

this is the typeface i created with a mental block, i thoguht even with this i could us draw and get an effect and soeties that works for me but in this instance i dont think it did, although i dont like this typeface i think its important to keep and reflect on why i donr like it. i dont think that its speical eough to be caled original, the lines around the outside were intended to be more effective and bold, however i think they make the type look messy and unfinished. i dont beleive this typeface is good enough in general to take frowards to experemntation stage.

after this decided that i wouold go home and work on my typefaces digitally, i work better doing this and using my graphcs tablet.

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