Font Selfie Workshop
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For this workshop I used gouache to add colour to my letter design so I could get vibrant solid colours. I didn't want to overcrowd my design and make it too confusing so I stuck to a warm colour scheme and simplified my concepts to fit.
I chose the font Who Asks Satan because I like the scratchy and rough edges of each character. Going with a classical theme, in my design I included a orange argyle pattern, tree bark, and a candle with melting wax. I decided on these because I like the texture of the different elements and thought they would combine well with my selected font. |
Type Quiz
DIY Alphabet - Week I
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I used items found in my kitchen to create letters from photographing the objects. It was quite a challenging finding different objects that could naturally form letters.
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I used some of my dogs fur after he had a haircut to create a more textured set of characters. I quite like how it turned out as it has an organic look to it.
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I found illustrating the different glyphs much easier and enjoyed the process. I think my favourite would probably be the ivy themed one, as I like the incorporation of natural elements.
My first drawn font was inspired by the types of fonts used in science fiction while the second was inspired by how water pools when placed on a flat surface. The third font down was based on growing and wilting flowers. |
Type Fun Exercise 2
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I chose Bahnschrift Condensed because I like the slimness of the ampersand and the elegant quality that it gives the font.
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Rage Italic was created by American designer Ron Zwingelberg and was one of the first casual brush style scripts with a rough, textured edge. I chose it because of the scratchy feel to it, synonymous of a pen writing on parchment.
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Blackadder ITC is the work of British designer Bob Anderton which he based on 16th century handwriting captured from scrolls, adding a tremble based on Guy Fawkes' signature after his torture. I chose it because of its eerie quality.
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Dokdo is a Korean font that I like to use in my personal work. I chose it because i like the rough, angular edges.
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I chose Ink Free because of the fluidity of the font as it curves loosely in a relaxed manner.
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I like the heaviness of Old London as it is bold and sharp with a very sophisticated feel to it.
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Viner Hand ITC is based on British designer John Viner's handwriting. Viner learned brush lettering during the late 1940's while working at a firm that produced posters for the Gaumont and Odeon cinema circuits. I chose it because I like the relaxed feel of the writing.
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I chose Vladimir Script because I like the simplicity of it as well as how appears to incorporate the mathematical symbol for and, '+'. The brush-style font is similar to that of old hand-painted department store signs during the 1950's.
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Futura - Technology
For technology I decided to draw tangled earphones as that is what wired earphones are infamous for doing.
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Baskerville Bold - The Park/Garden
I decided on The Park for this ampersand and designed a tree growing through the main brick wall designed symbol.
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Bauhaus - Pets
Choosing the topic of Pets, I decided to incorporate my two dogs, a Bichon Frise and Cockapoo, into the design. The shape of the ampersand allowed me to create a playful piece of the two running and jumping.
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DIY Alphabet - Week II
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I experimented with some simple ink designs to begin this week. I quite like how the cobweb one turned out, and think that there are more variations I could still experiment with using the same theme.
For the second design I incorporated simple eye illustrations into each letter which I think creates a slightly uneasy font that watches you. If i chose to progress further with this concept I think that I could possibly make the eyes more realistic or detailed in order to increase the unsettling nature of this design. The third design simplifies the ivy concept from the first week by just incorporating one leaf per letter. I don't think I would continue with this variation of the font as I prefer more detailed illustrations and would want my design to be more complex. |
I used a barb wire necklace that I have to form different letters. This worked out surprisingly well as all of the letters are easily distinguishable and the spikes of the necklace add an interesting texture to the design.
I began to select different serif fonts to edit and draw over in an attempt to start to vary the font styles that I was using. This makes it easier to focus on the concept rather that the letter shape.
This design was inspired by chess pieces, but I quickly discovered that it would be too difficult to incorporate every letter in this way and would be stretching the link to each chess piece.
This design was my favorite so far as I like to draw hands and it seems to be a somewhat unique concept as I haven't been able to find any fonts similar. Despite this, after my feedback session, I have decided this this font isn't very practical and would be difficult to use for the next project so I'm going to work more on my other font ideas.
DIY Alphabet - Week III & IV
Barbwire Necklace Alphabet
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Alterations
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Using both the suggested changes made in the feedback sessions as well as my own, I re-made some of my letters so that they would fit in better with the rest.
Variations
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When taking the initial photographs for my alphabet, I tried out many different variations for each letter in order to find the perfect one to use that fit well overall.
Earphone Alphabet
I like this font because I like working on detailed illustrations, but creating this as a full font would take far too long to complete as well as the final text losing most of the detail when made smaller when used.
Chess Font
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I experimented with making the more difficult letters with multiple pieces. For the letters B and D, rather than using many pieces to create the curve I continued fragments of the piece to form a line. Despite this, I'm not sure it fits all too well with the rest of the letters. I used a more abstract design for the M by not actually having the pieces connecting to avoid making it too clustered with many pieces and to try a different approach.
Hand Lettering
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I found this task quite difficult when trying the make the quote cohesive but also visually interesting. Completing this task challenged me to focus more on using type to convey an idea rather than relying on the illustration.
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Digital Type
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Uppercase/Lowercase
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Letter/Number
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Letter/Punctuation
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Black/White
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DIY Alphabet - Week V
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Alterations
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Variations
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Final DIY Alphabet
I'm happy with how my final font turned out overall. I think that it contains my personality within the font and is very much an encapsulation of the types of fonts that I like and turned out very similar to my actual handwriting.
