Type Workshop Session 3 & 4

My Typefaces are coming along nicely. I have completed one in FontLab and with a few minor adjustments it will be ready to use. This font is a block font with an urban feel to it. It would be used for headers and titles that would be printed big. Using bright colours and a little drop shadow this works as a vibrant font that stands out. I named it Barry.

My second typeface is based on brush strokes and taking letter forms from Chinese writing. I wanted to achieve a natural feel to this font. I have finished the designs on paper and now I have to put them into Illustrator or FontLab. I am going to make this font available in Regular, Bold and Italic.

My final typeface is still in the early stages. It was inspired by block text I saw whilst in Berlin. When I got back I started sketching out ideas for a font that is very top heavy. I have a almost half the alphabet, but some letters are posing a real problem. It is hard to make them fit with other letters around them. I might make this a 3d font.

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Type Experiment

Fons Hickmann

I have been looking at a lot of Fons Hickmann's work in the past few weeks. He has done a massive amount of posters across Germany for different events and company promotion work.

I especially like the books he created. 'Touch me There' was made to link art, design and theory by including photography, illustrations and graphic design, with a small injection of Rock n Roll.
This conceptual book shows the amazingly creative work coming out of studio Fons Hickmann m23 and why they are one of the most award winning teams in the world.

http://www.touch-me-there.com/

Shocking Advertisements

Here is some examples of advertisements using shock tactics. Trend Hunter.

This is some of my research into Amnesty International and looking into different types of advertising campaigns.

Roman Cieslewicz

Here is some work by the Polish designer Roman Cieslewicz. He was a fine artist and specialised in poster and display designs. He has some amazing examples on hand rendered typefaces and loads of examples of different methods of printing.

http://www.poster.com.pl/cieslewicz.htm
http://www.theartofposter.com/romancieslewicz.htm

Inspiration for Vernacular Typography

http://www.practise.co.uk/work/2004/urban-wild.html

http://www.bookworks.org.uk/asp/home.asp

For my Vernacular Typography project I am producing 3 small books. Each book will boast an illustrated front cover relating to the content but keeping an obvious continuity between them.

The bookworks site has some excellent examples of page layouts and colour schemes and popular designs
that have
been
published.

Thank you bookworks!

Vier5. http://www.vier5.de/10/info.html

Visual Communicators, typographers and designers.

Vier5 design & apply many of their own new up to date fonts, and do lots of experimental typography work. They say their work is based on the classical notion of design and they work with creative statements, trying to cut out the use of visual empty phrases.

I especially like the catalogue for the musee d'art moderne they created and the Douglas Coupland poster which uses lots of different styles of typeface together.

I think this work appealed to me most because of the instant impact it has, it looks interesting. Even though it is foreign, the use of symbols and letters together draws you in.

Viva Vier5!

Vernacular Typography

For the vernacular type brief I have decided to produce a set of books each documenting a different type/style of lettering around London. I have edited the photos and have around 20-25 for each set.

Each book will have an illustrated cover relating to the subject, which I have rough sketches of but haven't finished the designs. I am looking at different colors and weights of paper to print the main pages on and looking into different materials to use for the front and back covers.

I have also looked into different ways of binding the book. I thought about spiral binding so the books are easy to flick through but I have now decided to use one pin so they can fan out to view all the images together.

The color scheme for each book will represent the style of the images and the different typefaces used and each will be assigned a theme to follow.