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Part of my "Found Type" project at UWE where we had to design a font for a theme that we chose. I chose Saintly. Throughout my research, I looked at the architecture of churches, the similarities in there designs and how certain shapes could easily be recognised as being linked to that type of architecture. I then started looking at Dante Alghieri's Divine Comedy and the illustrations by John Flaxman and Gustav Doré. At first it became difficult trying to figure out how to implement this into a font, but then I took on a challenge, Would it be possible to get Doré's engravings into the font. Then another thought crossed my mind, how do images look when compressed to low pixel quality sizes and how they are still recognisable. So I did that, I bought a book of Doré's illustrations for the divine comedy, and they started to build into the letters. Each letter also has this Art Deco like area to it which went well for the Stain Glass Window approach I also wanted in the design. It took a lot of practice to get this right, and there was a fair amount of copy and pasting here and there but overall I'm quite happy with the turn out. I hope you all enjoy!]]> http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/721671/dor_s_comedia Mon, 29 Oct 2012 01:15:06 +0000
For my first project at Uwe I had to produce a type face based on a word i chose from a list,I chose decay and wanted to look into how sea rope ages and decays.]]> http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/725524/rope_only Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:25:36 +0000
I was inspired by the word squishy.i started of looking at squishy objects,i did a few experiments with toothpaste and liked the idea of flow.I looked at Benoit Bodhin and his font Pipo to give me inspiration to keep flow throughout the letters without them actually being joined.]]> http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/722836/broken_flow Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:14:25 +0000
My shot at negative space with 2x2 filters. Far from perfect, but it was fun. Teris means vise-versa. Thanks & Enjoy!]]> http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/722512/teris_4 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:19:42 +0000
Written by me, D-Sheep, with a 0.4 mm STABILO pen on a regular notebook paper, scanned @ 300 dpi on full contrast and copied to FS. ---And yes, I write all caps.]]> http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/623208/d_sheep_handwriting Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:53:32 +0000