Handmade Typography

Handmade Typography

Handmade type is a typographic experiment by designer Tien-Min Liao where shapes painted on her hands are transformed by gestures to create letter forms. I was inspired by the fact that not only did they showcase the individual letters, but they also went as far as to demonstrate the transition between upper-case & lower-case. I selected this work of hers because it shows well what her technique is, her work inspires me to with the fact that I can print text by changing the positing of my hand to make upper and lower case letters. Some letters my not be accurate and clear but I think that element adds more creative out come, I could photograph the letters of my hand making the saying/expression from my hands and edit using Photoshop my final could be layers photos taken and edited heat pressed onto the T-shirt. I could overlap and layer the photos to create more of an interesting composition.

This is my take on Tien-Min's style of handmade type, which is supposed to be an upper case S.