Favorite FontStructions from SophieHiggins (Sorted by Sharing Date)

“filament” by David2108

Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:17:01 +0000

“Splitter” by laydeepunch

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:41:39 +0000

An all-caps typeface loosely inspired by the distortions of reflections in skyscraper windows and sand dune patterns. The typeface is driven by the theme of 'repetition' but each glyph has been individually rendered to have a unique set of differences.

“Horror Show” by Callum Rothwell

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:51:50 +0000

Based on the Classic Hammer Horror Film Posters, my 'evil' font was fun but a challenging design to create. The font shows influence particularly to film posters such as : 'They Live', 'Brides of Dracula' and 'The Horror of Dracula'. My aim was to recreate the boldness and shock factor that these famous fonts were once so often used for.

“Pane In My Glass” by gbates1

Fri, 01 Nov 2013 19:21:05 +0000

I started off looking at the word 'curves' and after generally looking at spirals and curved objects I decided to make the letters themselves curve. I cut the letter 'A' out of black cardboard and placed it in a glass of water, and then photographed it at many different angles and positions. I really liked the distorted effect the water had on the letters, and so after changing the theme to 'reflection' I carried on this technique with the rest of the alphabet. 'Pane in my glass' is made up of my favourite shapes that came out of this experimentation.

“Black Star” by harriet040394

Fri, 01 Nov 2013 14:33:50 +0000

I created this type face on the theme 'Sharp' - I started by looking at sharp shapes and the obvious one was a triangle. This lead me to the Star of David and I looked at Daniel Libeskind's designs for the Jewish Museum in Berlin. I experimented with which letters fit into the religious symbol and it turned out that they all did! After making a 3D version of the font I decided to fill it with black to give more of a contrast and make it more legible! So here it is... The Star of Harriet 3D Black! Improvements welcomed!

“White Star” by harriet040394

Fri, 01 Nov 2013 14:29:59 +0000

I created this type face on the theme 'Sharp' - I started by looking at sharp shapes and the obvious one was a triangle. This lead me to the Star of David and I looked at Daniel Libeskind's designs for the Jewish Museum in Berlin. I experimented with which letters fit into the religious symbol and it turned out that they all did! I decided after making the line version that it needed more to it so added a 3d effect! So here it is... The Star of Harriet 3D! Improvements welcomed!

“Not on the table, kids.” by tesssieling

Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:45:32 +0000

Starting from the word 'squishy', I thought about how children play with very tactile things. If something has a tactile nature it will appeal to children to play with it and 'squish' it. From this I explored how sponges are very squeezable and photographed them in different ways. Alongside this thought process I was also sketching water in letter forms and loved how it appears to have a squishy texture in itself because it is fluid. Combining these ideas, I experimented with cutting sponges into letter forms, applying paint, squishing them and creating a typeface based on the marks they leave behind on a laminate table surface.

“WordCross” by James Sharpe (jamesadamsharpe)

Sat, 26 Oct 2013 01:03:35 +0000

Based on the theme of 'repetition' my type design is completely based on crosswords. A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white and black shaded squares, however i decided to remove the black background that is normally visible as i wanted to create a clear, sleek and flowing typeface. Initially i wanted to create the whole font out of 4x3, but soon i realised that some letters wouldn't work and that would then make the whole font harder to read so i increased my canvas size per letter to 5x5 maximum. The numbers have no relevance to the shape of the letters, they are just evenly spread so that they don't duplicate next to each other. I have started playing around with other versions of the font and hope to get them live soon.

“Atom Dynamics” by Hali

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:00:39 +0000

Originally based on the word 'dynamic', which later led to the development of atoms and everyday structures. My idea is specifically based on 'The Generation of x-rays and Moseley's Law' atom, which led me to branch out and try and interpret everyday structures.

“Tobacco Factory” by Tomhobbs

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:14:24 +0000

A reflection in history. This typeface design has been created for my first typography project at UWE Bristol. it has been inspired by Bristol's past Tobacco history by taking inspiration from the architectural elements of the disused Tobacco warehouses that still stand prominent in the Southville area of the city. After studying the buildings and making site visits to take photographs from all 4 sides of the warehouse, i started to look at how i could create the letter forms by using the occurring perspective of the building in relation to where i was stood. What i most like about the whole design is it not an obvious 'Reflection' inspired design and for me that has made this project a success. Later on this design will be constructed into a 3D word, where i intend to make the letters out of Red Brick like the buildings themselves.

“Spaztec” by Samipring

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:37:49 +0000

Spaztec was origanally inspired by the word "ornate". I began by looking at jewelry and "flourishes" on other fonts. After playing around with shapes and curves I realised i hadn't been thinking outside of the box. Ornate could have different meanings and take many forms. I then took interest in Aztec and Native American prints. I particularly liked the "hand crafted"/"imperfect" shapes and chose to comunicate the rawness in my typeface.

“Dorés Comedia ” by Martin Bodger (Arty_Marty)

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 01:15:06 +0000

Part of my "Found Type" project at UWE where we had to design a font for a theme that we chose. I chose Saintly. Throughout my research, I looked at the architecture of churches, the similarities in there designs and how certain shapes could easily be recognised as being linked to that type of architecture. I then started looking at Dante Alghieri's Divine Comedy and the illustrations by John Flaxman and Gustav Doré. At first it became difficult trying to figure out how to implement this into a font, but then I took on a challenge, Would it be possible to get Doré's engravings into the font. Then another thought crossed my mind, how do images look when compressed to low pixel quality sizes and how they are still recognisable. So I did that, I bought a book of Doré's illustrations for the divine comedy, and they started to build into the letters. Each letter also has this Art Deco like area to it which went well for the Stain Glass Window approach I also wanted in the design. It took a lot of practice to get this right, and there was a fair amount of copy and pasting here and there but overall I'm quite happy with the turn out. I hope you all enjoy!

“Negative Chaos ” by elliecashman

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:25:07 +0000

Negative Chaos is the end result of a typography project at Uwe. My theme word was 'chaos' I began exploring the meaning of this word. This led to several experiments exploring how I could use marks or patterns to express chaos. My favourite experiment used the stencil of the letter and then used drops of ink, the negative space of the letter was left once the stencil was removed and surrounding this were random drops of ink. Each letter was therefore unique so there was already an element of chaos in the typeface, but I also felt the effect of ink created an energetic feeling which felt chaotic.

“Rope Only” by BethHawkins

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:25:36 +0000

For my first project at Uwe I had to produce a type face based on a word i chose from a list,I chose decay and wanted to look into how sea rope ages and decays.

“Electric” by jaione c

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:49:53 +0000

This typeface has been created based on the theme "Energy". During my research, I have been exploring "Energy" from different points of view, from the essence of it, to scientific bases and other concepts like positive and negative energy in different contexts. The work has been inspired by the scientific way, more concretely in Nikola Tesla's experiments in the area. I found interesting how energy is created in a specific point and spreads creating different shapes. The typeface is also inspired by "Futura" typeface due to the time relationship between the creation of it and the experimentation period of Tesla. This is meant to be a display typeface, but I think it can work in a medium or big size. It ended up being quite "blocky", which I am not sure about, so all comments are welcome.

“decayed other” by fionahobson

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:31:58 +0000

my name is fiona hobson and I am a student at UWE and after exploring decay through varies areas,urban decay rotting food etc i decided to look at thing i thought represented deca without showing it exactly this is where i thought of flies. flies buzz around dead beings as well as rotting food so decided to base my typeface around this.

“Viiberz” by Hana Tucker (tucktuck)

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:48:38 +0000

This typeface has been created based on the theme 'Vibration'. I tried out a wide range of experimentation when it came to producing hand rendered work, as I felt I needed to work out what would best capture the general sense of the word. I tried using inks on elastic bands, attaching pens to a playstation controller and drawing, photographing food colouring over a speaker; all sorts. Finally, I decided I needed something which really reflected the word clearly. I looked at the white noise and the trails that you get on the television, and applied this feel to a sans serif font I had made based on Georgia (minus the Serifs) One of the most time comsuming things I've ever done, hope its been worth it. Any comments welcome.

“GAME OVER (Final Edition)” by Tasha Beesley (beeswee)

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:21:18 +0000

The original starting point for this typeface was "Decay." I was thinking about what is left after something has completely decayed, which brought me to the idea of using skulls. After having created the skull outline, I tried different ways of including the letterforms, and decided that the simpler the better (and more readable.) As a result, the typeface has gained a sort of old-school computer game-esque feel - hence the name. This Fontstruction has been created as a part of a Project during my first term studying Graphics at UWE.

“Bat Country” by loboarches

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:58:59 +0000

I produced this for my "communicating with words" first year module on the BA(Hons) Graphic Design course at UWE Bristol, England. It pays homage to Ralph Steadman and is a true testament to what you can do on fontstruct, if you’re willing to spend a week in front of a computer in your underpants. Recently reviewed on P.C World Downloads www.laurieguy.co.uk

“Hommage à Escher” by Frodo7

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:25:43 +0000

This is my homage to the late Dutch master. I tried to capture the impossible geometry, sense of space, and even the colours of his works. You can see and download the new v2 here:

Hommage a Escher v2

and

Hommage a Escher v2 extLat