OUGD403 - Studio Brief 01

Visual Thinking - Alphabet Soup

Studio Brief: Produce a set, series or sequence of ten letterforms, which explore and communicate your interpretation of the word that you have selected from the randomiser. You should use the typeface you selected from Vignellis six basic typefaces within Study Task 1 as a starting point for your manipulations.

Using your newfound appreciation of the anatomy of typographic forms and the wealth of research that you have already gathered, focus on the manipulation of existing letterforms in order to solve this problem.

My word:

2. 
   

My starter font: 

Helvetica 

I started by creating a mind-map to help brain storm ideologies of danger. I then printed out letters such as uppercase A and B and lowercase c and b and traced them to create their outlines. I then manipulated each letter individually to create a sense of danger referring back to my mind map. I also thought about various dangerous objects such as knives, fences, cliffs, broken glass, rocks etc and created letterforms based on these ideas. After producing roughly 20 different letterforms I then decided which ones I thought worked best and presented 10 letterforms into an A4 sketchpad. Each letter form was presented on their own page giving the letterform room to "breathe" as well as being easily legible. I also annotated each letter and sketched the objects/ideas that they were based upon.