240312
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 29th October, 2012
Created: 16th October, 2012
I decided to base a font around timid text, exploring mainly the letters that we can't see. My research for this started in the city, but it became arrparent that most of the more natural, organic and unseen forms lay within the forest. I spent time looking at how the bark forms on trees, but what grabbed me was the way the branches above connected and crossed over to produce a network of hundreds of shapes and lines. It was from this that I created my type, mimicking the sight of branches when you look up through a tree.
80301
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 30th October, 2012
Created: 28th October, 2012
Block stencil typeface, during designing the letters i wanted to create a stencil type face but every letter had to have the exact vertical space in the center of it. I had rounded edges in my sketched designs but struggled to get the shape in fontstruct.
1024664
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 11th November, 2012
Created: 26th October, 2012
Underline is my font for the UWE brief, Communicating with Words. Using minimalistic lines to represent cropped parts of the London Underground tube map running through the letters.This is a clone
471366
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 19th November, 2012
Created: 21st October, 2012
Balloon Face
A fun typeface with a hand rendered feel, inspired by the art of balloon sculpturing. Also a take on the popular graffiti style of bubble writing, as seen and researched in bristol city centre.
UWE Graphic Design - Communicating with Words
323315
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 29th October, 2012
Created: 23rd October, 2012
a typeface centred around the key theme/word 'shadow'. I started looking at how the time of day effected the shape and the size of the subsequent shadow cast. However, I then moved onto the ideas of bevels and a more subtle shadow effect created by raised centres of the letterforms. The 'impossible triangle' effect came from a idea that was brought up in a critique about 'extending it and making it really elaborate'. The name is chosen because I think that typefaces should have friendly names.
150353
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 29th October, 2012
Created: 29th October, 2012
Clean version of Get Pasted : A simple well balanced typeface that includes the lowercase a to z along with basic punctuation. This font is based on toothpaste which was derived from the theme of squidgy.
There is a half tone alternative to this typeface. This is a clone of Get Pasted
121300
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 29th October, 2012
Created: 24th October, 2012
First font created for UWE Graphic Design project- Found Type. Focusing on repetition I started looking into shapes and patterns created from tyre tracks.
200355
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 30th October, 2012
Created: 23rd October, 2012
A simple well balanced typeface that includes the lowercase a to z along with basic punctuation. This font is based on toothpaste which was derived from the theme of squidgy. I have used half tone to emulate shading, and will also make a clean version.
190302
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 7th November, 2012
Created: 15th October, 2012
This font evolved out of looking at different kinds of motion. In its form it is representing the movement you see from a car and its lights during night photography.
272304
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 4th December, 2012
Created: 22nd October, 2012
1st year Graphic Design student at Bristol UWE:
A font based on natural reptition, focusing specifically on the the human skelton and the reptition of bones to form a structure. Combining the elements of the human skeleton with the butterflies spine (thorax) and the geometric shape and structure of the wings.
364305
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 29th October, 2012
Created: 19th October, 2012
A reflection in history. This typeface design has been created for my first typography project at UWE Bristol. it has been inspired by Bristol's past Tobacco history by taking inspiration from the architectural elements of the disused Tobacco warehouses that still stand prominent in the Southville area of the city. After studying the buildings and making site visits to take photographs from all 4 sides of the warehouse, i started to look at how i could create the letter forms by using the occurring perspective of the building in relation to where i was stood.
What i most like about the whole design is it not an obvious 'Reflection' inspired design and for me that has made this project a success. Later on this design will be constructed into a 3D word, where i intend to make the letters out of Red Brick like the buildings themselves.
100301
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 30th October, 2012
Created: 8th October, 2012
This is a font based on the concept of how little of a character must be shown in order to recognize that character,in the idea of wooden letters carved including the frame. Largely inspired by Wim Crouwels New Alphabet. Not complete, reworking dimensions of the characters within the frame.
280302
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 5th December, 2012
Created: 25th October, 2012
Part 2 in a series. Best viewed small.
This is for my first project at uwe bristol, it was my first time using the software fontstruction. Influenced by a book named 'elsewhere'. It isn't completely finished and some letters are in the process of being changed. Extra characters coming soon...This is a clone of Cast A Shadow
238372
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 5th November, 2012
Created: 19th October, 2012
As part of my "Found Type" project at UWE, we had to design a font for a theme that we chose. I chose Ornate. I was particularly drawn to this theme due to its relations with Biblical manuscripts and the architecture within Churches. I ended up combining the manuscript like lettering with features of Churches. I realised that this combination creates a great contrast between thick and thin, straight and curves. I found it difficult to create curves on font struct, but I rose to the challenge and created this. I hope you enjoy!
260314
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 5th December, 2012
Created: 15th October, 2012
This is for my first project at uwe bristol, it was my first time using the software fontstruction. Influenced by a book named 'elsewhere'. It isn't completely finished and some letters are in the process of being changed. Extra characters coming soon...
160352
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 9th December, 2012
Created: 10th October, 2012
I created this font for my University project. It was my first time using this site and I found it quite hard at first but now quite enjoy the possibilities. I started by looking at the word "Ornate" which to me, means adorned or decorated. When I looked at decorative adorned work, I noticed the use of vines and flowers. I then took photos of vines on buildings which inspired my font.
I started with a basic letter form and by using composite bricks I added pattern in the bricks and edges much like some older buildings. Then finally added vines and flowers to complete the font.
5163212
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 25th November, 2012
Created: 15th October, 2012
This font was made as a response to a brief given to me for my Graphic Design course. we were invited to chose a theme for a list of words, I chose decay. My inspiration originally came from my everyday walk to Uni; past old factories, over a disused railway bridge and past an old cricket ground. I then started to broaden my view of decay and looked at the way it effects different things including the decay theory (a theory used my psychologists about memory) and then finally I narrowed it down to dead tress. The finally font has been inspired by the illustrations of Tim Burton.
573397
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 31st October, 2012
Created: 23rd October, 2012
Spaztec was origanally inspired by the word "ornate".
I began by looking at jewelry and "flourishes" on other fonts. After playing around with shapes and curves I realised i hadn't been thinking outside of the box.
Ornate could have different meanings and take many forms. I then took interest in Aztec and Native American prints. I particularly liked the "hand crafted"/"imperfect" shapes and chose to comunicate the rawness in my typeface.
70392
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 3rd November, 2012
Created: 11th October, 2012
This is my first Fonstruction whilst studying my degree in Graphic Design at UWE. It is themed 'dynamic', however once i started research and mind mapping i went more in the direction of dynamic dance and movement; which is what lead me to looking at ribbons and ballet. I wanted to bring the letterforms back towards the dynamic theme, so decided to make the sides and corners more angular. With some of the letters i tried to create a joined up handwriting feel, inspired by the way that ribbon floats and would fall if it was making the letters naturally.
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!
212322
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 30th October, 2012
Created: 27th October, 2012
This typeface is 1 of the responses I had towards the word 'order'. It's not the most intricate of designs, but conveys the idea of order in the form of receipts clearly. This brief was created by my degree course.
201417
Published: 28th October, 2012
Last edited: 15th November, 2012
Created: 17th October, 2012
Negative Chaos is the end result of a typography project at Uwe. My theme word was 'chaos' I began exploring the meaning of this word. This led to several experiments exploring how I could use marks or patterns to express chaos. My favourite experiment used the stencil of the letter and then used drops of ink, the negative space of the letter was left once the stencil was removed and surrounding this were random drops of ink. Each letter was therefore unique so there was already an element of chaos in the typeface, but I also felt the effect of ink created an energetic feeling which felt chaotic.
191235758
Published: 28th October, 2012
Last edited: 11th November, 2012
Created: 15th October, 2012
This typeface is based on the theme of "Vibration". From the beginning I wanted to create a unique design, looking at sound I decided to use my voice as the starting point. After recording myself pronouncing the alphabet and uploading it to a sound editor I looked at the different shapes and patterns it created. This was my voice that was unique to me and was the inspiration for the typeface. I then researched fonts and looked at bold, chunky designs which could hold the pattern without taking too much away from the letter form as it was important to me that my design was still legible. I decided to use the corresponding sound with the letter (i.e. the A has my pronunciation of the letter running through it)making it different from anything I have seen before. Please comment and share your opinions. Thank You
241296
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.
161313
Published: 28th October, 2012
Last edited: 26th November, 2012
Created: 16th October, 2012
UWE 'Communicating With Words' Graphic Design project.
I chose to look at the theme 'Decay', and was inspired by Andy Goldsworthy, Anna Garforth, Daniele Del Nero, and natural occurrences such as rotting fruit and mould.
I grew mould and made observational sketches, experimenting with a range of drawing techniques.
I then drew out my font, and used graph paper to translate it into pixels.
I feel this font could be used for things such as health posters for sexual health or smoking advertisements, or in children's books, due to the natural rounded quality.
327468
Published: 28th October, 2012
Last edited: 29th October, 2012
Created: 21st October, 2012
This typeface has been created based on the theme "Energy". During my research, I have been exploring "Energy" from different points of view, from the essence of it, to scientific bases and other concepts like positive and negative energy in different contexts.
The work has been inspired by the scientific way, more concretely in Nikola Tesla's experiments in the area. I found interesting how energy is created in a specific point and spreads creating different shapes.
The typeface is also inspired by "Futura" typeface due to the time relationship between the creation of it and the experimentation period of Tesla.
This is meant to be a display typeface, but I think it can work in a medium or big size.
It ended up being quite "blocky", which I am not sure about, so all comments are welcome.
200307
Published: 28th October, 2012
Last edited: 28th October, 2012
Created: 20th October, 2012
This Fontstruction was designed for my first module, 'Communicating With Words' at UWE. The brief we were given was to design a typeface using a key word, mine being 'ornate'. My ideas initially stemmed from architecture and then to the tilling within. I used elements I saw within the tile design and transferred them into my Fontstruction.This is a clone
220394
Published: 28th October, 2012
Last edited: 28th November, 2012
Created: 24th October, 2012
Communicating with Words Project. An energetic typeface i made, using different types of triangles in an abstract way.
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.
4057310
Published: 27th October, 2012
Last edited: 27th October, 2012
Created: 21st October, 2012
This typeface is the response to the word order. I was influenced by Art Deco design, as well as the form of grids. It was developed by hand using a ruler and pen, experimenting with spacing and curves. The same shapes and angles are used right throughout, lending to the idea of an ordered typeface.