Alphabet Soup- part two: Resolution

Above is the A1 Sheet on tracing paper and name badge that were completed for the alphabet soup part two. After finishing we had to present our typeface to the person it was based upon and also to a small group of tutors and students.
On reflection of my typeface there are aspects of it that i really like such as the line quality and stylised approach applied to the letters but i also dislike how it can't as yet be used as an actual typeface because of how each letterform joins together.
I will continue to refine the letterforms in my spare time in order to fully resolve the brief whilst i also want to experiment by using colour within the typeface.

Alphabet Soup- part two: Development

For the second part of the Alphabet Soup brief our group members were put into pairs and given a series of questions to interview each other with. We were then asked to produce a font including glyphs that represented that person.

Rather than trying to answer all of the questions at once I selected one response on which to base my font which came from the question, 'What is your most treasured possession?'

With the answer being her jewelry I set about designing a decorative font that communicated four particular words that related to the jewelry which were: Playful, Decorative, Sentimental & Contemporary.

We were also asked to seek out an existing font on which to base our own work and I chose RNS Camelia - a modern serif font with smooth curves I felt would lend themselves well to the jewelry theme. I have since begun developing and decorating the font as pictured above and I'm now in the process of refining the letterforms and designing the glyphs in preparation for the final resolution : An A1 sheet with all 26 letters of the alphabet along with 6 glyphs.

Alphabet Soup- part one

For the alphabet soup brief we were asked to create ten letterforms that communicated a given word, mine being 'Extend'. I started by experimenting with shadows as they provide a natural form of extension and through using stencils and a desk lamp i managed to successfully distort and stretch each letterform. Simple blending options and slight adjustments were applied to each letter on Photoshop but i didn't want to make any major changes so as not to distract the viewer from the original image. I found that the technique worked best when extending two or more letterforms into each other but the brief stated that for the final resolution each letterform must be presented individually.