130300
Published: 27th October, 2014
Last edited: 10th November, 2014
Created: 28th September, 2014
This decorative typeface was created around the idea of a playful letterform. Inspired by Stefan Sagmeister's letterings my goal was to create a design that has similarities to a handwriting font. The idea of 'light bulb' comes from the movie headlines in the 20's.
346308
Published: 23rd October, 2014
Last edited: 25th October, 2014
Created: 16th October, 2014
My first project as a student at UWE studying Graphic Design was to create a font using FontStruct. I chose to develop the theme messy, I thought to myself ‘what makes a mess?’ This led me to the idea of toast, it’s messy and especially when burnt. I cut letters out of burnt toast, I really liked the effect it had made therefore it influenced me to develop it further within FontStruct. I decided to use Helvetica as a guide purely for its simple, clean letterforms, hence why I have named my typeface ‘Burnt Helvetica’. I wanted to really capture the essence of the burnt areas with shading, therefore my inspiration came from cutting the burnt toast around a Helvetica letter template, photographing it and printing it on graph paper. Due to the nature of the font being messy I wouldn’t use it on anything formal or of importance, I feel that it would be suitable to be used within children associated designs, definitely food related designs and perhaps something rather playful or of course, messy. This is my first attempt using FontStruct all feedback is welcome.
170313
Published: 23rd October, 2014
Last edited: 24th November, 2014
Created: 11th October, 2014
For my Fontstruction I chose the theme condensed, which was part of our typography brief on our Graphic Design course at UWE. With my theme being condensed, I went with a very skinny typeface, this is because I was going to call it anorexic. On certain letters that have right angles I added an inner curve, to represent how skinny a human body goes when anorexic. The hardest part of this, was the limitations of FS and trying to get around them, this includes letters like M, N, W, R & K. Once I knew how to nudge and stack blocks, the challenge of combining blocks to make the correct letters wasn't as hard. This typeface isn't based on any current typeface.
4753210
Published: 26th October, 2013
Last edited: 4th November, 2013
Created: 22nd October, 2013
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.
250263
Published: 27th April, 2024
Last edited: 4th November, 2013
Created: 14th October, 2013
Based on the theme of "order" my typeface is inspired by the aspects I have found within the structure of a tool such as, hinges and bolts. I got this idea when looking at the order involved in construction. A lot of adjustments are needed including the spacing. Any comments, suggestions or constructive criticism would be great!
231348
Published: 27th April, 2024
Last edited: 27th November, 2013
Created: 19th November, 2013
My first FontStruction through UWE, based on the keyword 'squishy'. Initially, my research consisted of squishy items, producing very illustrative, specific results. However, I decided to experiment by folding printed letters. From this, I wanted to find a way to express tension created within letterforms and concluded with 'Discordion', to create such a disagreement between serifs and interior letter structure.This is a clone of Discordion Outline
170573
Published: 27th April, 2024
Last edited: 28th October, 2015
Created: 21st October, 2015
This font was based around the theme 'Messy'.
I took inspiration from the imperfect calligraphy of Gemma O'Brien.
I like the way her letterforms seem like they've been drawn out quickly and I tried to recreate this in Fontstruct.
Another thing I looked at was how some artists used anything as a pen, so for this I tried a few unconventional things to create patchy looking type.
I ended up using an old rubber brake pad for a bicycle, I think this looked nice because of its shape and rigidity.
I think this embodies my theme well because it has the sketchy marks and generally untidy qualities.This is a clone