Jan 23, 2018
New alphabet font by wim crouwel and used by Peter savile for joy division substance in the Design Museum and a shopfront typeface in camberwell I really like
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New alphabet font by wim crouwel and used by Peter savile for joy division substance in the Design Museum and a shopfront typeface in camberwell I really like
Has been a good reference book throughout my project having a real nice selection of works and content I have managed to read what hasn’t gone other my head, I feel this project has made me relize I am much more interested in type than I originally thought
Page layouts from the 4 page zine, I feel it would of been nice to have done a letter per page and being a 26 page booklet containing every letter however some of letters alone do not look that impressive and I like the idea of changes of scale and being able to play around with phrases and compositions. It might of almost been quite dull and predictable for the zine to of just been the 26 letters in order per page
Some DADA works what I really liked, the use of the black forms and shapes alongside the type really works well, the idea of looking at type as a form and illustrating with it instead of thinking it as words with meaning is really interesting
Experimenting with using my fonts in editorial terms with other shapes and forms and colour, It looks better than I expected when accompanied with extra aesthetics, This was also a test for my sample sheet, where you can see how the typeface would be used in everyday design
Finished version of my typeface, the main difference from previous images is how once I was happy with each letter form and them as a set, I played around with stretching them and found they looked more attractive taller and slimmer, one fault of my typeface could be perhaps how letters such as W,U,M are still very normal and more straight than the rest of the letter forms, however I do feel atheistically this works and the more waved letters and straighter letters complement each other, Although I say this is completed as a typeface as I plan to go on and put words together I imagine I will pick up on certain ones what do not work together and I feel I will be able to tell if it successful to an extent or weather I need to go back and develop it a lot more
I am currently playing around with the forms of the letters rather than being precise. I plan to arrange them into a gridded system and refine them further when I am confident with each letter. There is no rule to my type face but I am thinking I might have to develop one to make it more legitimate, I feel if I continue without a rule I will have to get a good balance of weight and shape throughout the letters for them to look aesthetically united to a certain extent.
Starting to grid the cutouts by hand and it seems rough lettering can be formed out of them already however it is quite a long process By hand and I plan to take the shapes in illustrator to play around with them