Vector Forms

Using your initial pixelated forms as templates, create more aesthetically satisfying vector versions of your typeface names. Remember to carefully kern your letter combinations. Print all three on a single letter size page. Here is the Project Sheet with some helpful hints.

Above examples by Ryan LeCluse. And below is a representation showing “ideal” placements for points and handles on an “s”… and then some playfulness.

Heinous Crimes

Here are the heinous crimes against typography: small and big

Type in Space

Once you have designed your three typeface prototypes, choose one and recreate its name in space (three dimensionally). Devise a thoughtful way to re-present each “pixel” in the original prototype. Scale, arrangement, and materials are completely up to you, but you must present the final piece as a 10×16″ print.

Please have some sketched plans Monday, 29 September, that we can consider together. Final print will be due the following Monday, 6 October. Above designs by: JB, Soh Young Kwon, Seon Joo Kim, and Ece Ciper. You might also remember the modular works I showed by Stefan Sagmeister.

Type Prototypes

Develop three distinct concepts for typefaces using the 11×11 pixel grids provided. Consider which structural features will be shared from letter to letter (terminations, heights of crossbars, proportions, stroke width, etc…). Then come up with interesting names for your typefaces. Here is a link to the project sheets.

The example above was done by Leanne Guaneri.

Quiz

Here is a link to the quiz for you to download: Quiz

ReImagined Epitaph

Here are some images for your interest/inspiration. The images are by (clockwise from top left): Denis Brown, Brody Neuenschwander, Monica Dengo, Brody again, and myself.

And some student examples by: Eliza Brillantes, Shauna Myers, Alex Roulette, and Isaac Gergan.

Handlettering

Greetings class. I decided to start a class blog as a place where you can find information pertinent to the work you are doing. Below are some previous students’ handlettering for your reference.

And here are some of the handlettered quotations. Feel free to work in color and/or on colored paper, and explore the placement and scale of your lettering. See you Monday.