Saturday 24 October 2009

Tape and Type


Ok, so tape and type. The challenge was to, in groups, create a typeface using only tape, to come up with an appropriate name, characteristics and such for the type.

My group went with a childish font based around the idea that "my mummy thinks im special".
As it was a childish font we decided to have the characteristics of childish writing, i.e. bad spelling, backward letters, bright colours, non-lining, mix of serif and sans-serif.



Later, after getting too wet we retired to the studio. Me and Chris designed another 3D typeface, the origonal experiments of which i don't have the photos of yet. Here is the second experiment. Each letter is on the same space and is "3D". Essentially the pillar has four sides, each side has the front of a letter on it, this letter then wraps around the other sides as it would if it was a block, overlapping with the others. I think this works quite well as a piece but probably not so well as an actual typeface.


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