FloMotion

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by Dan-noR

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The font Flomotion is the outcome to my first semester at UWE, studying Graphic Design. The task was to create a full typeface on the font building website, fontstruct.com. The final design had to relate to a chosen theme, my chosen theme for this project was Motion in which I pursued the subject of optical illusions. I liked the idea of trying to create a false sense of movement with a font, taking inspiration from existing optical illusions with the same effect. This then led me to look at the 'Op' art movement of the 1960's, in particular the extensive work of Bridget Riley. Her use of black and white line giving the illusion of depth had a big influence on my work and I think my final design reflects this.
Info:

Created on 22nd October 2011. Last edited on 4th December 2011.
License:

Creative Commons
Categories:
- Display
Sets:
- 26 Glyph Wonder
Tag:
- Uwe(1046)
- Bristol(81)
- Graphic(72)
- Design(177)
- Dan(3)
- Daniel(1)
- Norman(1)
- Dannor(1)
- Motion(32)
- Flow(29)
- Flowmotion(1)
- Flomotion(1)
- Optical(36)
- Illusion(40)
- Bridget(1)
- Riley(2)
- Op(3)
- Art(143)
- Swift(4)
- Swirl(16)
- Curl(13)
- Curve(142)
- Wave(29)
- Viscous(2)
- Sinuous(1)
- Movement(27)
- Move(5)
- Direction(13)
- Line(282)

11 Comments

Looks amazing so far. The C,D & A remind me of sea shells.

Comment by djnippa 25th october 2011

W O W

Absolutely awesome. And actually, now that Mr. Downey mentions it, those letters do look like sea shells. Brilliant work so far!

Comment by Logan Thomason (xenophilius) 26th october 2011

Looks like seashells? .... I had my ear pressed up to them waiting to hear the roar of the sea.

Beautifully sinuous - go with the flow!

Comment by p2pnut 26th october 2011

Dazzling new design using distorted black and white stripes to achieve optical illusion, and stunning visual impact. The I, and parts of A,C,D,G etc. resembles to striped toothpaste. 10/10

Comment by Frodo7 20th november 2011

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How did you create this?

Comment by Ethan Rules 4th december 2011

Y is the only one which don’t flow as well as the rest.
Nevertheless, 10/10.

Comment by riccard0 4th december 2011

Thank you all very much for the feedback and the nice comments. I agree I do need to work back into a few of the letters that dont flow as well including Y.

Comment by Dan-noR 5th december 2011