DESIGN SKILLS.BRIEF 4. MESSAGE AND INTERPRETATION. DESIGN SHEETS.

My pro-verb: Every Cloud has a silver lining. I did some design sheets. I'm a bit late with this project, because I've got really sick. That's why now I'm working double, trying to catch up. I did some basic idea sketches. That I photographed and scanned.  I still don't have a solid idea. i did some illustrator work, but it's just not working. So I think i need to do a bit more reseach. the problem I'm facing is that my idea is not strong. And I think that's the real problem. 

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DESIGN SKILLS. BRIEF 3. ILLUSTRATOR. DEVELOPMENT

So I chose three letters from the first Alphabet Soup project/ Condense theme. I worked with them on illustrator, traced them down. And decided t choose:

This one ---> 

The typeface I produced  condense letter forms was this: 

So the first thing I had to do trace the typeface, because I have no idea what kind of typeface it is. 

And that's what I did

Here it is, the lines of the typeface I will be producing my new typeface for the illustrator brief.

After I decided to chose the typeface I chose. I realised that it's going to take me a while to create it. I was right. Because it took me few days to design the whole alphabet. I still need to choose and develop the colour I'm going to se. Though I think I'm going with CYAN. Because Blue represents frozen water and generally water. My word for the alphabet was CONDENSE. So it suits really well. 

I did some colour variations, but I don't think I'm going to use any of these. It takes the eye of the lines of the letters and focuses on the background.  That's why a white background should be the best. I still need to try some with the white and than print it out. 

DESIGN SKILLS.BRIEF2.TYPEFACE. POSITIVE CHRIS. FINAL PIECE.

This is my final piece for Chris's alphabet soup typeface. 

1. I measured the sheet so that it would fit 26 letters and 6 glyphs 4x8

2. I draw the letters to the sheet measuring all the bass-line, x-hight, even the  ears and bowls.

3. Traced everything on the original sheet with a pen

4. Traced all the letters on the A1 tracing paper.

Then on friday we had the studio crit in groups. Every pear had to present the others work and say do thei like it, does it represent the person (me) and what's it about. Chris did my alphabet using my obsession to my bass guitar. It's quit round and groovy. I really liked it. F was a spider and g was me screaming at the spider. Because I'm terrified of spiders. I really liked it and the name tag was awesome, he used colours and texture. I think it's really readable and legible. I wear it near my student card all the time. Thank you Chris.

My alphabet was about Chris being a very smily (as You can see below) and positive person.

The idea was, that all the typefaces have smiles, except  for B (bananas), M (mar-mate), O (olives) and T (tea) because when it comes to these items he cannot be smily anymore for one or another reason.

I learned after the crit that I should produce few examples of capital letters. Just to have an idea how would they look like. And that's what I'm going to do. 

Sorry, blog,I was ill.

But now I'm on my feet again.

DESIGN SKILLS. BRIEF 2. DESIGN SHEETS. DEVELOPMENT.

Brain storming.  Thinking how to define positive and what symbols to use. Thought of tick boxes. Pluses. Yin and Yang. Positive and negative spaces.

 Did some designs to develop some ideas, but non of them seemed to work.

 Than while doing the other design sheet. Thought of a SMILE. It really defines Chris, because he's a very smily person. He smiles all the time. Except when it comes to olives, mar mate, bad bananas and making tea.  Did some designs with the smiles and (I think) the last ones suited quit well.

Then had to think about the cm and how to size everything. I think doing lower case is harder, because upper case typeface is all the same size. Whereas the lower case You have to think of the x-size, the bass-line, the ascenders. It took me a while to figure everything out.

DESIGN SKILLS. BRIEF 2. TYPEFACE. CHRISS. BF TUTORIAL.

This is my design sheet of the first typeface I thought of after doing some research. From the answer sheet that I had about Chris I chose words: Donut, bike, , olives, sunny, happy, and thought all these words relate to the form 'circle'. That's why I draw the whole typeface out of circles. I decided to fill it in by tracing few sheets that I printed out from my research, the things that Chris liked or disliked. But after the progress tutorial I changed my idea. Because I understood that the alphabet I was doing didn't say about Chris anything. And only he would understand what I meant. Jo gave me an idea, that maybe rather then saying things that Chris likes or dislikes, maybe  I should try to define him in one word. The only thing I could get from the sheet was that he's positive.

Design Principles/ Type anatomy

Type-faces we created out of other typefaces, by cutting, resizing and gluing everything together. The result of my Frankenstein letter forms: