OUGD404-Study Task 2- The birth of a font.

Using the principles, processes and resources introduced in the first four studio sessions develop a series of practical investigations into the development of new letterforms and fonts.

The Process - Use the individual anatomical elements of your chosen fonts (Gothic, Roman, Block, Script) to create a range of possible new letterforms.

1 - Cut the individual elements out and re-construct them in order to create a series of Hybrid letterforms.

2 - Select the 5 most successful/interesting/legible letterforms and produce the uppercase and lowercase Aa, Bb, and Cc

3 - Trace these off and hand render them.

4 - Using the same approach to hybriding create the appropriate upper case Xx, Yy and Zz for each of the 5 new fonts.

5 - Name each Font

 

The fonts i had used originally were

Geneva

Lucida Bright

Brush script mt

Hobo std medium

 

These are the original letterforms before i cut them out:

Collages created on www.photovisi.com

3rd January 2013

 

These are variations of the different Uppercase A

 

 

 

 

 

 Different Variations of Lowercase A

 

Different Variations of Uppercase B

 

 

Different Variations of Lowercase B

 

Different variations of C (uppercase and lowercase)

 

 

 

I had noticed that the more anatomical elements to the letter you could create more variations which is why the Uppercase A and uppercase B both have considerably more variations then the lowercase letters.

 

Once the different variations had been done I then went on to choose my best five to then hand render and draw A,a,B,b,C,c,X,x,Y,y,Zz

 

Below are my final Outcomes.

 

 This is the Letter I chose to create the AaBbCc XxYyZz

 



Uppercase A,B

 Uppercase C

Uppercase X,Y 

 Uppercase Z

 Lowercase a,b

Lowercase c

 Lowercase x,y

This is the letter I I used to create the other letters.

 

Uppercase A,B,C

 Uppercase B,C

Uppercase X,Y

 

 Uppercase Y,Z

 

Lowercase A,B,C

Lowercase X,Y,Z

The Letter I chose

 Lowercase a,b,c

 Uppercase x,y,z

 Uppercase A,B,C

 Lowercase x,y,z

 The Letter I used to create the letters

 

 Uppercase A,B,C

 Uppercase X,Y,Z

 Lowercase a,b,c

Lowercase X,Y,Z 

 The Letter I used to create the letters

 Lowercase a,b,c

 Lowercase x.y.z

 Uppercase A,B,C

 

 Uppercase X,Y,Z

 

 

 

OUGD405 How to..

Development and final designs for the magazine publication.

The brief was how to get people to tell the truth. As our original theme was how to be confident we decided that it would be interesting to create awareness towards the media about the lies that they told the public that have inevitable knocked there confidence.

We decided that we would all decide on a colour scheme a font and a general idea of what was going on each page then go off on our own and create our designated page. Then we came together made tweaks and improvements to then put it together.

The page i was designated was the instant opening pages which was a double page spread that would inevitable be the opening to the truth of the lies and effects that the media has had. 

Below are my development pages. When i designing i knew the colour combinations and the font we had decided to use then the rest was up to me.

When research (design context blog) we found a page within the magazine that was an advertisement for 'Matalan' where it was two cupboard doors that opened up with the detail inside. Deciding to do it this way allowed us to have 4 separate pages. We had decided to keep it minimalist as the inside would be full of detail and we didn't want it to reveal too much too soon. Originally i thought about doing a treasure chest sort of theme or to have a padlock as if you were 'unlocking the lies' but during development i experimented with a key hole or a key. We had all agreed that the content would just say 'Reveal' in a similar style to the 'Reveal' magazine logo.

Below are the different variations:

 

Above is the one we all chose when we came together however we tweaked it a little by adding in the 'the truth' in the bottom right corner but also by blurring out the key holes edges it created a more mysterious look and feel towards the page.

Below is the final magazine:

Front Cover designed by Samantha Walker

 Opening page designed by Sophie Abell (me)

Left Page (Info Graphics) designed by Joe Leadbeater and the right page (Good v Bad Role models)  designed by Danielle Yearsley

Right Page about eating disorders designed by Amy Hill and the Right hand side Perfume ad by Andy Smith

Back Page with Address to send to the Magazine Companies.

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