Experimental Typography x2

EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY

  

 

 

My group and I had flowers, looking at all of our mind maps of phrase and words that we thought linked well with flowers. When thinking about what can be associated with flowers we thought of words such as Peace and Love. We used the petals and stems of the flowers to spell out the words.

Vladimir Koncar is a designer who creates typography using objects/material relating to the study of his topic, his work has been featured in different magazines and books.  Narcissus Type this is an example of Vladimir Koncars work made up of daffodils spelling out the phrase "Little Things Amaze Me." I personally like this piece because of the relation the daffodils little beautiful flowers and the phrase "Little Things Amaze Me" have because daffodils are small but attracting pieces of nature and the way the phrase relates to the material used to make the text, adds more of a impact to the typography. This work will be inspiring my own work by using his use of materials that relate to the topic of the text, for example some of the sayings/ expressions I'm thinking of using such as A Dime a Dozen I could create the text out of coins take photos and continue on to develop on Photoshop.

Experimental Typography

I created furry font in Photoshop using work by  Handmade Font as inspiration they design unique fonts for advertisement campaigns, packaging, magazine covers etc. The objects usually used to make the text relates to the saying/expression or what the text is being used as, for example an advertising text they create for a warning sign or campaign they would included things such as injuries which is a consequence to ignoring safety... 

I followed a tutorial on how to make my brush look like grass. First I selected a letter in simple font Arial Black, to use as a template. After I selected the Brush Tool and the Dune Grass brush and adjusted the thickness settings and size to 40. I then adjusted the background colour setting to E9EBCE and the foreground colour setting to 4E5500. When the grass brush the right effect I started to fill in my letter.
I also experimented with other brush textures such as the Scattered Maple Leaves and Scattered Leaves.

I also used the pin & thread font technique by hand inspired by the work of Debbie Smyth. 

I personally preferred the pin & thread technique because I was able to experiment with the movement of the string and make it 3D, the complex side of the pin & thread technic was more intriguing then the handmade font on Photoshop. Pin & thread technique also is more relative to Handmade Font because its done by hand instead of using Photoshop or Illustrator for example, in my opinion.

These are photos of my interpretation of Smyths technique using string.

To improve the Photoshop Handmade Font I would add more colors or textures to make the font more vibrant and bold,also maybe next time try different effects instead of the grass effect. To improve the pin & thread font I would  experiment with the placement of the pins on the foam so that the thread can be folded in differently making a different font/shape outcome.

M&M Paris Style

BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY

We created clipping mask in Photoshop inspired by the work of M&M Paris. With the black and white photo of ourselves,we placed the photo on the letter to a point where there was not too much black or white spaces. After I experimented with brush storks to add some extra effect, however there were many flaws to my final piece because the actual letter which is a capital A does not show clearly. To prevent this happening again the photography I use next time I need to make sure there is not alot of white space in the photo. 
I created a new and developed experiment in this style because the way I used the bursh tool in my first experiment was to careless. I kept this design simple and used less of the brush tool.

Dry Media

 On this page I've tried doing my own Typography, experimenting with different text styles.
We looked at the work of Hennie Haworth and James Hancock. They both have the use of bright and bold colors that stand out.

This piece by Hennie Haworth looks similar to doodles and also has different types of font,color and shape. I love the way the small quirky illustrations actually create the type. I like the way the different types of font and images are presented together.
There's no limit of the use of colors in this piece and most of her work which makes her work more interesting to evaluate and relate to because there's a lot to look at on the page. 
Hennie Haworth's work I can relate to because I really like experimenting with a lot of colors and images.

James Hancocks work has more images combined with different fonts, his use of mixed media bring extra elements to this piece. However unlike his work I failed to add in the little images to make my page more bold and eye catching, his work looks like advertisement such as a poster.