ADVANCED TYPOGRAPHY TASK 3: FINAL PROJECT
31/5/2021 Week 10 -
Rhyanne Cyrene Lowe
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Bachelor of Design (Honours) in
Creative Media
Advanced Typography
Task 3 / Type Exploration and Application
Lecture Notes:
Week 10: Mr Vinod Briefed us Task 3/ Project 2: Develop a font with the accumulated knowledge from the lectures and
your own reading that can solve a problem or be a part of a solution in
the area of your interest. Come up with a typeface to be used.
- solve a problem
- how it will look like used
- study your area of interest, look at how type is used in the area and
identify potential weaknesses or possible areas of further
exploration.
- Understand the existing relationship and see what to improve upon
Week11 -14: There were no lectures on these weeks
Instructions:
IDEA
PROGRESS
Sketch Stage
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| 14/6/21 fig 1.0 sketch 1 |
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| 14/6/21 fig 1.1 sketch 1 |
Refinement stage
After sketching out the main idea for the font, I wasn't satisfied
with the thickness of the letters so I went ahead and refined it by
thinning and elongating certain areas in the typeface to make it look
more fluid and irregular.
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| 14/6/21 fig 2.0 Refine stage 1- Thinning edges and strokes |
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| 14/6/21 fig 2.1 Refine stage 2- Defining outline |
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| 14/6/21 fig 2.2 Refine outcome 1 |
Digitalization
After i was satisfied with the way it looked, I digitalized it to
prepare for any more minor edits.
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14/6/21 fig 3.0 Refine stage 1 Progress |
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| 14/6/21 fig 3.1 Digital Outcome |
After analyzing the type side by side, I decided to thin out some of the
strokes to show emphasis on the bold strokes and further convey the
visuals of eroded edges
FINAL WORK
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| 21/6/21 fig 4.0 Refine Stage 3 Final Digital Outcome |
Making it into a font:
After I was completely satisfied with how the type looked, I
headed to Font Forge a free software to create fonts and
imported each letter asset.
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| 21/6/21 fig 5.0 |
To further visualize the distortion of hallucinogenic effects on the
type, I attempted to animate the word 'Psych' on After Effects.
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| 21/6/21 fig 6.0 Animated text |
Once I was satisfied with the motion of the text, I would next add
colour as suggested by Mr.Vinod.
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| 26/6/21 fig 6.1 Final Animated text w/ Colour |
Application
I was inspired to create a gif by including the animated font onto a
scene from the HBO series 'Euphoria' because in the series the main
character, as shown in the gifs below, experiments with
hallucinogens while coping with her drug addiction and I wanted to mimic that using shots of her facial expression while on hallucinogens as I showcase the movement of the type.
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| 26/6/21 fig 6.2 Font application |
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| 26/6/21 fig 6.3 Font application 2 |
| DOWNLOAD THE FONT HERE |
Feedback:
Week 10: Mr Vinod advised to further
research on my topic to find a more solid objective
Week 12: Mr Vinod advised to try animating the type by using
tools such as photoshop timeline and blend tool.
Week 13: Mr Vindo suggested I try animating with colours and figuring out the application of the font as a final collateral
Reflection:
Week 10: The briefing of this final project was exciting I wasn't
as scared to start it because Excercise Type & Play Part 1 is
similar to this project so I had a running start in learning how to
create my own font. Coming up with an idea was the hardest part for me
as I knew I wanted to do something fun and unconventional.
Week 11-12: These 2 weeks have consisted of a lot of sketching for how I want my font to look. Doing research on old psychedelic fonts which have dated back since the 1960s and how they implement it into
posters have been really interesting to learn.
Week 13: After refining the font to the final look, I
attempted to animate a text. I had this idea at first wanting to animate it but it was scary to think about the process because I have little to no experience in animating but luckily youtube tutorials exists.
Further Readings:
How Psychedelic 60s Changed Design
Psychedelic Font: How Wes Wilson Turned Hippie Era Turmoil Into Art
The history of psychedelic design
Scott B. Montgomery (2020) Pioneers of psychedelic art: an
appreciation of Bonnie MacLean and Wes Wilson, The Sixties, 13:1,
72-76, DOI: 10.1080/17541328.2020.1752075
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