OUGD403: Studio Brief 02

Visual Thinking - Vector type

Task: 

Produce an alphabet based on one of the letterforms you created from the Alphabet Soup, Visual Thinking brief. You are restricted to working in black, however you may experiment with opacity and half tones. After the feedback from the group critique, I decided upon using the typeface that they thought was the best. I scanned into into the computer and live traced it on illustrator. However, I found it extremely difficult to draw the angels on the top of the letterform. I found this letter particularly difficult to digitalise due to it's exaggerated and complex corners. Especially the top half, where the corners are slightly curved, similar to that on a fence. Also, I found I was particularly unskilled on illustrator due to just being introduced to it, I found this compromised the development of this letterform into an alphabet.   Therefore, I reverted back to my original ideas and I found a better suited letterform, which I also thought was better than my original design my group had chosen. I started to develop a few letter forms by manipulating each one and referring back to the helvetica font. However, without using a grid I found it extremely difficult to make the letters uniform and similar to each other. Shown above on the H it looked out of place.  So from then on I started to use a grid.  After completing the whole alphabet I presented it to a group as a final crit. However I decided not to use a 4x7 grid to present it as it wasn't suitable to my uniform and uneven font. As seen on the picture below the 4x7 grid didn't suit my font at all. So therefore I decided to print it like this instead. I feel this layout better suited my font.