VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS:

When we were laying out the boxes, we weren't to sure about what we had to do, and we laid the boxes as if creating the letter out of them. But after asking, we then realised what we needed to do.

We used black cardboard to see the line of the letter 'F' and we kept the letter simple.

In some frames, the letter works better and is seen clearer than in others. This could just be viewed at slightly the wrong angle, however we did find it very difficult to keep the line together, so maybe we could have thought it through a bit more.

We then added tracing paper, changing the tone.. but this didn't work as well as we had hoped. So I think if we were to do a similar brief again, we would need to think more about an easier solution of either projecting the letter on the boxes or what material to use to form the letter.

After watching some of the other groups, we found that some groups had printed off the letter several times, some in black and then gradually lightening the tone. They then cut the letter out and stuck different areas onto the boxes.

ALPHABET SOUP: continued

After coming up with the typeface by hand, I then looked a doing it on illustrator.

I looked at another original typeface face, rather than using 'Century Gothic' to see if it would effect it in any way.

Here i used 'Tahoma' and I think it works just as well. I'm going to look into different ways of showing the typeface; how would it look like bold, italic or bold and italic?

Here is the alphabet in italics. I think it works just as well in italic as regular.

I tried to look at doing the font in bold, but I couldn't work out how to do it! So will keep trying.

ALPHABET SOUP: part two

My partner in the brief is Rob Green.

After swapping questionnaires, i picked up on the game "halo" he enjoys.
Decided to look at 'Century Gothic' typeface as my starting point.

• Clean lettering
• Simple and easily read.
• Make it Bold and Italic- show movement and make it stand out more.

A1 sheets that I produced:

First is in colour. There is no outline, trying to convey a bit of 'fun', a bit laid back.

The second I left with no fill. Just a fine liner pen, keeping it simple, which works well also.

I looked at the line thickness of the lettering. I made a mistake on the 'o' so decided then to make the vowels thicker than the rest. Not sure how well this would work when having to put the letters together to create a word.

The 'bowl' in the letters are outlined in a thinner pen, there is too much detail for a thick marker.

This is my final piece. I have changed the 'bowl' in each letter, as there was too much detail, and it didn't work that well. There needed to be more space, like the letter 'e'.

I left the colour, as it didn't work well on tracing paper, and I think it would have changed the quality of the lettering, so I decided to keep it as simple as possible.

After finishing my final piece, we had to use the lettering to produce a name tag for our partner.

The letters work together well, however I think that it would be better if the type wasn't as bold as it is. It makes it difficult to read.

I then started to look at what the typeface would look like if I changed my first font face.

I looked at serifs and how it would change with boldness and italics. I am currently looking at usig illustrator to produce these types faster and easier. I can then change the letters so all are changed the same.

VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS:

• Started by producing five 10x10 squares, showing 'scale.'
• Swapped our own squares for someone elses- these are our new squares.
• We had to modify each square 3 times. So each square was slightly different.
• Had to make sure it still conveyed 'scale.'

First image are the 20 squares (15 I had to modify)
Second image is my 4 squares plus the rest of the group's work.

Third image is one of my original squares, modified by someone else.

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  Looks really good as a whole.
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  Each show 'scale'

ALPHABET SOUP- part one

The word I had to communicate was 'Hybrid'.

After working in my sketchbook, looking at materials and different ways of joining the letters together, I then went on to producing the final letters.

Using illustrator, we were asked to produce 26 different ways of showing a letter. I tried not to use the 'filter' key, as too much of it can ruin your work. I like how most of the letters have turned out. Some I have changed subtly, and others I have just tried something new.

VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS:

1. 
   
   Loop
2. 
   
   Broke
3. 
   
   Finish
4. 
   
   Right Angle
5. 
   
   Spine
6. 
   
   Connect
7. 
   
   Systematic
8. 
   
   Project
9. 
   
   Enclose
10. 
    
    Negative

These words were shouted out and i had 5 minutes to find the best way to represent the word.