Typeography Week Three

 

This week I designed and made my final piece for the three dimensional alphabet. The concept is a stack of A4 paper in the shape of an “A” that is slowly being shredded. The shredding communicates the state of the nation at the present time. I also experimented more with materials as seen from the above images.  

Typeography Week Two

This week I continued my exploration of materials based around the word audit. I also began to explore creating fully three dimensional letter-forms. I think the visual image of shredded paper effectively portrays a lot of the problems we associate with the state of the nation today. As seen from the image below a solid, three dimensional “A” that is in the process of being shredded signifies the economic and social situation we are in presently. I will continue to develop this concept and create a finished piece from it.   

Typeography Week One

This week I started a new typography brief entitled “State of the Nation”. The premise of the brief is we are all give a letter of the alphabet and based on the letter we must come up with a word that reflects the state of the nation. The letter form must both portray the word as well as the words connection to the state of the nation. As seen from the images below the letter form I picked was “A”. I started my research with a mind map and I also went through a dictionary and picked out all the words starting with “A” that had associations with the state of the nation. The word I decided on was “Audit”. I then began looking at the structure of the letter-form “A” as well as typeface references. I then began to explore concepts and visual imagery associated with the word audit. I also gathered material associated with the word audit and began experimenting with those materials to make letter-forms.