'A' Breakthrough

I originally began experimenting with the use of colour with the rockwell typeface to give my font a little more depth, however this didnt seem successful. By chance, I layered two different colours of 'organic' movement type in different colours to create a much better effect. After choosing the correct layer mode this is what I came up with. Combining a range of colours. Isn't it lovely?

Lighabet

Lighabet
Originally uploaded by Luke Hallam Photography

First final idea for a typeface overlaying a rockwell font. I chose it because of strong serifs and clear define of each edge to trace. Im happy with how it came out although the exploration of colour and a more organic movement was prefered in the crit, so I will continue with that and experiment.

Couple o' designs

I want to keep the interior quite typographical, a couple of ideas to draw attention to the main and key points and facts Ive found out, with related facts selected and placed next to these main pieces. Just a piece of development really.

Fontastic.. and the shortest day.

Hello, thursday was the day we revealed our fonts to each other, discuss our ideas and see what can be improved.. Below is my font, created by Emma Price which i really like. It displays mature, travelled, detailed and organized qualities about me really well (which were the words we agreed on) and it looks really professional. Might make it into an actual font. Oh! that reminds me, recommended by adam a website to create your own fonts.. fontstruct Ive only made one so far, but i will make more soon and keep experimenting with it.

We also created name badges for each other displaying our font we made for the other person. I made the badge a little bit more personal by having a nickname and including her childhood imaginary friends name on the badge, a nice little touch.

Thursday afternoon, I attended a typeset induction and learnt how to set type.. it only took us 2 1/2 hours each to make a sentence :S it came out really nice though.

You take individual letters from massive trays of characters to form words and sentences. Quite a relaxing process, but i wouldnt want to do it for an entire newspaper like it used to be done.

Friday, which was probably the easiest uni day so far was our screenprint induction that in total only took about 2 hours in the day to complete, which was nice! Using a monoprint made, we photocopied it twice, and manipulated one of them to create two layers of a print to be screen'd above the original magenta print and below the manipulated photocopy.

Below, adam at work printing our designs, all placed on one large screen to save space and time. Which each took it in turns for all the prints to be produced.