Graphics: Typography

Day 2:

Typography was the task for the day. Graphics generally involves a lot of it and it'd only be essential to have a session- or a day- on the subject.
We were introduced to the idea of 3D typography by manipulating paper. We also learnt that typography didn't  have to mean English, or the traditional 25 alphabets. It could be a shape, a squiggle or even a bunch of dots. Putting all that into action, I took an A1 sheet of paper and began experimenting.

I tried techniques such as cutting, folding, scrunching, sticking and even experimented with glue, coffee, colour, stains and sugar. For example; gluing up a piece of paper and rubbing coffee all over to see the resist it has against the glue on the surface.

 

Throughout the task I learnt that I much rather enjoyed a sense of abstract forms of letters, ones that'd be hard to guess at first sight. I also really liked the idea of creating my own language, rather than a font.

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To continue with my idea of making my own language using shapes and symbols, I picked that to work with on the next task. We had to pick our favourite technique and create a full set of alphabets through them. Sticking to the 25 letters in the English alphabets seemed like the most convenient way in which to introduce the idea, so it'd make sense to me and others.
I went with the idea of hieroglyphics, which I found very exciting; the shapes and designs were almost like art and so I incorporated that in my work.

Another thing we had to do was name our new alphabets; Alpha-Glyph is what I decided to go with, as it had 25 characters of the English language, written in the form of hieroglyphics.

 

At the end, everyone pinned their work up, to be viewed and commented on. Everyone in the class had created different kinds of fonts, both 3D and drawn, which were very interesting to look at and of various styles.