Type and Language Update - 03/12
I really love typography, but type projects usually take me a long time to complete. I keep procrastinating on them! And this time wasn’t very different.
But the workshops were really interesting. Coincidentally, this was the first project after the hybrid system started so I got to attend the launch day in person, and that made all the difference. Attending the collage workshop from home would be borderline impossible (at least for me), because I'd have lost all focus. I was happy with my results. I think I should have experimented more, gone a little crazier. Everyone, even tutors, tend to tell me to do so, because I tend to keep very neat, and that’s good in itself but it keeps me from expanding my work beyond it.
It became very clear during the week what we were supposed to do, regarding the three posters, and I really wasn’t confused or nervous about this assignment. It just felt a little... Not boring, but I wasn’t excited about it in the slightest. So, I let it slip through the weeks until I had an assessment conversation with Jaygo. We were going over all projects and this lone stood out as being the one I was most behind on. That made me very nervous and (finally) got me moving somewhere.
I chose the posters to grid in the most unimpressive way: I merely picked out the ones I liked the most. It turned out they were mostly very minimalistic, but what can I say? I actually like that kind of stuff, especially if I had to do an all-type poster based on them. I had a day where I organized all my little project books in which I made those grids, but then I neglected it for a few more weeks. I can’t tell for sure, but I think it’s because it’s a relatively ''easy'' project that I knew would take me little time to complete, so I kept pushing it further and further.
Until last week when I finally was able to start my reflection and do some actual planning after two months of neglect due to stress. I decided I would make the most out of the four weeks I had left before the 18th of December hand-in, so this project was one of the things I decided to tackle first, since it would be quick to solve. And it really was! I just downloaded the pre-selected posters, the fonts, and got to work.
I love working with minimalistic type, especially sans serif, because of my need for my work to feel neat and organized. And I think I managed to do just that: turn already minimalistic posters into the most minimal versions of themselves. But I also added a little twist to the ones that had circles as graphic elements; I wanted to make circles out of type, so I just watched a quick tutorial on YouTube and figured out a way, so then my posters are 100% black and white and type. I'm very happy about these results, and I will print them with Danilo soon.