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Published: 23rd October, 2013
Last edited: 9th November, 2013
Created: 20th October, 2013
This san serif, textured, bold font is inspired by the old cast iron type on train carts. When I discovered the old train carts down at the 'Bristol Harbour Railway' I was fascinated by these incredible forms.
To create the structure of these characters I worked from one of the rubbings I took of a particularly nice iron plate and then scanned it into the computer to replicate the letters which where missing. I then printed this on to graph paper and transferred the bricks one by one to try and get the most accurate representation as possible.This is a clone
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Published: 27th November, 2013
Last edited: 4th December, 2013
Created: 2nd November, 2013
Based on the theme 'decay' I chose to look at how I could incorporate buildings into my font. I looked at derelict buildings during my development and thought the idea was strong enough to go ahead with. I wanted to give the idea of an abandoned city with the buildings decaying over time. I did this by bringing parts of the buildings skeleton through and with the shattered windows.