OUGD101 - Alphabet Soup 1 Development Work - Edit

For this brief I had to pruduce a series of 10 letterforms that explored and communicated my interpretation of the word 'edit'.

Considering the anatomy of typographic forms I focused on the manipulation of letterforms to solve this problem. Looking at different fonts I noticed there are alot of similar shapes from the legs, stems, arms, descenders, ascender, counter, bowls, etc, that reoccur. And I liked the idea of having a letterfrom and showing how it would merge into another with similar charachteristics to itself. As the idea of making changes is a way of editing. My chosen typeface to work with was Desdemona and I used both digital letterforms and hand drawn, sketchy letterforms together to emphasise the 'edit' taking place. I also looked into colour schemes before choosing my final colours that I felt worked the best.

OUGD101 - Alphabet Soup 2 Development Work

For this brief I had to design a typeface for a full alphabet and glyphs that represented the character of my partner, Niall Hargreave, after discovering his personality/character through a series of set questions. I again focused on manipulating an existing letterform to solve this problem.

The final outcome that I produced was created to capture his interest of the natural world, as he admired David Attenborough, from the programme 'Planet Earth'. For that reason I decided to look at animal prints and also plants so I could draw patterns from them to use. My four words to describe Niall were happy, caring, laid back and calm, and my chosen typeface had to represent this, so I decided to work with 'Hobo Std'.

OUGD 101. Alphabet Soup Interview

Niall Hargrave

What is your earliest memory?

Birthday party at Kartas - Activity World. Wearing a beano t-shirt

Which living person do you most admire and why?

David Attenborough (Planet Earth) - cool, knows what he's on about.

What is your most treasured possession?

Memories

What would your super power be?

To be able to take a photograph just by looking at something.

If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose?

Dodo Bird

Who would play you in the film of your life?

Jake Gyllenhall, when he was younger

Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?

Seth Cohen and the rest of the O.C cast members.

What makes you unhappy?

People who are rude/ignorant/arrogant towards him.

What would be your fancy dress costume of choice?

Old school skater (short denim shorts, baseball shirt, high socks, sweat bands, skateboard)

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

Nahhh!

How To... Meet people with similar interests

Using our conceptual and practical design skills we had to, as a group, solve the problem, ''How to...Meet people with similar interest'' in an appropriate creative manner.

We decided to come up with a way of interacting with the audience. We did this by making coloured wristbands for them to wear. Each colour representing a different interest, were you could spot somebody else wearing the same colour, realising they have something in common, and therfore creating an ice-breaker for them to make friends.

I put together the powerpoint presentation that we used to show everybody our final outcome. We wanted it to be kept simple and straight to the point with a bold type (Harabara). I also used photographs taken of the product in use to make it a more visually appealing presentation. Here is the work I contributed to the group brief:

Visual Language 06/10/09

We were given 5 words that we had to again interpret in our own way. But this time they each had to be of a set of four 10x10cm squares. We then had to create single 10x10cm frames of each word that simplified the sets of four.

Jumble

For the set of four they started as a perfect line of A's that were begining to rotate and eventually fall out of line and become jumbled together.

Then for the single frame I simply made this jumble effect smaller:

Hybrid

For the set of four I used two different typefaces coming from each opposite sides of the set of four, and then had them colliding together in the middle.

For the single frame I simplified this down and kept the idea of the two typefaces colliding together, but in a smaller form:

Extend

For the set of four the line of A's spread further away from eachother frome each frame to the next as if they are extend outwards.

The single frame is a smaller version of this as the line of A's become further apart from eachother:

Edit

In the set of four, the first consists of four Vertura A's, the second of three Vertura and one Helvetica, the third of two Vertura, one Helvetica and one Times New Roman, and the fourth of one Vertura, one Helvetica, one Times New Roman and one Gills Sans Ultra Bold. This is to show that as you look from one frame to the next you can see thta a letter has been 'edited' each time.

For the single frame I have made this idea smaller, and in each row you can see a change to one letter each time:

Deconstruct

In the set of four the first frame is a pyramid and as you look from each frame to the next, the letters are being taken away and deconstructed.

For the single frame I have tried to show this by showing the levels of the pyramid being taken apart:

Visual Language 29/09/10

We were given ten words that we had to create our own interpretations of, using only the letter A in a 10x10cm square. The ones I found the most effective were right-angle and enclosed, and the ones I found the least obvious were connect and finish. Below are my samples:

Break

Connect

Enclosed

Finish (Finishing Line)

Loop

Negative (Space)

Projection

Right-angle

Spine

Systematic

Summer Brief

I had to produce an alphabet that visually communicates me as an individual. I chose a word for each letter of the alphabet that represented different aspects of my personality, such as things I like to do, places I go, what I love and hate, and what type of person I see myself as. To make it more personal to me, I chose to draw each letterform by hand using illustrations of my interpretation of each word. Each letterform, shown below, had to be of A6 foramt (portrait). The words I chose for each letter of the alphabet where: Art, Bed, Car, Doodling, Energy, Fashion, Godson, Home, Ironing, Jewelery, Kirsty, Love, Make-up, Nightclub, Optimistic, Party, Quality, Relax, Shopping, Timekeeping, Umbrella, Visual, Wigan, X-Factor, Yoga, Zante.