My Typography

For my project on Typography I was asked to create my own typeface using elastic bands. So I chose to pair up with my good friend Amy, once we had an idea it was quite easy to roll with it. We decided to do a very straight-edged alphabet in 3D and we wanted the main reccurant shape to be triangles. This was because we started drafting the designs of the letters on graph paper, which reminded us of Math equations. The 3D side of the idea was purely to make the designs more challenging and add and extra edge to it. After many hours of thinking about what the shapes in the letters were going to look like, we started to make them in elastic bands. To do this without ruining our original designs we blew up some graph paper and pinned it to Amy's cork board so that we would be able to get the proportions as close to the original. Of course when you make something small and try to create a larger version the proportions are going to be slightly stretched. Which meant that no matter how long we spent on it some did come out looking different to how we wanted it but there wasnt really any way to change that without making it smaller but we wanted all the letters to be the same height and width so we couldnt really do that. In the end thoughI really like how the alphabet turned out and I think its more quirky than we originally thought it would be but thats what makes me proud of it. I feel like we did a good job of it an for my first ever Typography project it was pretty good. I like the concept, obviously I think some of the letters could have been better like the "J" but I think the fact it is so strange is one of its many good qualities.

We also had to design some posters advertising our new typeface, mine I wasnt particularly proud of as I am quite new to poster design. I want to put them up anyway even though I dont like them because I am going to make some improvements on them so I want some before and afters. I also think it important crtique your own work and say why you dont like it!

In this poster I wanted to show the angles in the shapes of the letter but I wanted it to be the main focus as it was what the typeface was about. I also wanted to show the construction paper because that meant that you could see how the type was made and the concept behind the type. I also put a description of how to mathematically measure an angle to also show that we were focusing on the angles. We decided to name the typeface "typesine"
which was a play on the words typeface and cosine (how to measure a triangle). I believe that my thought process in creating this poster was right but my execution was probably wring in that the construction grid is too overpowering on the page and drowns out the shape of the letter. Also because black absorbs colour so it is more difficult to see the red elastic lines.








These next ones were just variations of the colour, I wanted to experiment with the colour of the lines because they needed to stand out from the background so I thought that it was quite important.
I thought that the yellow added a nice touch, subtle but not too weak.






















I decided to make the back ground white because I thought that it might bring the image into the foreground a bit more.