Tim Walker.

Final: Font

Final: Form and Communication

I decided to change my concept on the last night! Yay for letting go of ideas!

Type Face

G(i)raff(e) Paper....

Cover and Back cover of my book!

What do we think??

Quote: "2 is boring, 4 is confusing, 3 is just right."

Concept: Numbers causing emotional reaction. What is handled best in threes?

In this spread I'm trying to emphasis the text as opposed to the image which was amplified in some of my other compositions.  I think this works best because the idea is simple and the images have enough room to relate to each part of the quote.

Helen Lee: Inspiration

Last year we had a visiting artist named Helen Lee come and talk to us about glass blowing and how she went through a stream of processes and materials all inspiring one another, until she had a font created from glass.  I have thought about her a lot this year and am especially thinking of her now as we create our own typefaces.  I love the idea of using a certain medium and it's attributes to create a typeface.  It adds the personality of the material and can lead to many further experiements, such as Helen did when she used her font on glass business cards.  I think she's so cool.

Classy Type

I'm thinking about doing a serif typeface for our final project in Type II.  I think it's a good challenge because I'm usually inspired to do more modern, geometric typefaces.  I'm not sure exactly how I want to modernize the serif yet but I think it could be an interesting mix if I can make work.

I thought these package designs were really funny and incorporated the sophisticated serif (not Paul Smith), with the concept of cleaner, "perfect" fast food items.  It's not so much what I'm thinking about for my font but these labels alone are good examples of the cleanliness and sophisticated look of a serif font.