Typeface...

Here is my progress with the typeface project.

So the idea behind my typeface is that I shall be using images from Google Maps to look at satellite views of different cities. From this I will copy the image into Illustrator and draw around interesting looking shapes of rooftops. From this I will assign each shape to a letter and that will become the letter form. Rather that just writing each of the letters down and trying to remember which letter is which I have decided to make a key for myself so I can successfully keep track of what letter form is what.

Having now successfully completed my key with all of the letter form for my typeface I can start to place them on the page to make words and sentences to see how they look together.

  

Since our final print has to be done through screen printing my only worry is that letter like "V" and "Z" will not come out very well due to them being quite intricate. 

Corrections...

Just to clarify... I will be making a typeface based on the city not a font. A typeface being the correct terminology as our final typeface has to be printed. Hope this clears everything up...

Back To Uni...

Having started back at university over a month ago it's probably time that i started writing in this again and shared some pictures of things that I have been working on. This will all come in due course.

Since I have been back I have been working on 3 separate projects. To design a character for a children's TV show, make a font based on the city and finally make a moving image sequence to advertise a film festival. The festival is one that I have made myself i.e Title and films shown.

Initially from reading each of the briefs I was attracted to the 3D character project. This is because it seemed to be the most interesting. I will post work from each of the projects.