39353612
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 22nd November, 2012
Created: 16th October, 2012
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!
251296
Published: 28th October, 2012
Last edited: 5th November, 2012
Created: 24th October, 2012
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.
221378
Published: 28th October, 2012
Last edited: 5th November, 2012
Created: 18th October, 2012
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.
84176631
Published: 22nd October, 2012
Last edited: 22nd October, 2012
Created: 18th October, 2012
My shot at negative space with 2x2 filters. Far from perfect, but it was fun. Teris means vise-versa. Thanks & Enjoy!
47631614
Published: 11th March, 2012
Last edited: 28th May, 2013
Created: 11th March, 2012
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.