TIME:
2 weeks
TEAM:
Solo
TOOLS:
Hand drawing
Watercolor
Illustrator
Photoshop
For this exercise, we were required to consider our workspace, we were told to document and draw out our workspaces with a mindful perspective. It was not revealed at the time, but we would be using these elements to create a typeface.
We needed to draw our spaces using analog methods, I chose were blind contour, micron pens, sharpies, and my personal favorite: watercolor.
Once we had our drawings done, it was required that we scanned in our drawings and used digital methods to manipulate and edit our initial drawings and turn them into a typeface. I took my drawings into Illustrator and Live Traced my work into silhouettes and more workable elements.
After this part was finished, I began to take apart the drawings and shapes in order to find smaller workable pieces.
Within each letter, I added elements of Sharpie marker, watercolor stroke and a watercolor splatter for texture. On rounded segments of letterforms, I added splatters there intentionally to add a feeling as if it were actually done by hand -- as if the physical writing instrument is what caused the splatter.
All the letters placed alongside each other in a single PDF
The letters placed in their own pages
(click to see individual letters!)
GIF illustrating the growth of typeface
Here is a final of an earlier iteration using photography. I photographed the sleeves of a shirt, uploaded those into Lightroom to adjust the contrast and convert to grayscale, then into photoshop to select just the blacks, then into Illustrator to vectorize the stripes and organize them on a page.
This typeface didn't feel as calculated and exact as Limner did to me.
SPRING 2021
VISUAL STRATEGY
PROFESSOR ABERMAN
