Week 1

In the first week, I was introduced to the theme of type. I spent time during the workshop making stencil art with typefaces, ultimately settling with a more abstract, free-handed typeface. On top of this, I included blue branching paths inside the lettering, making it stand-out more and giving it a more obnoxious appearance, similar to graffiti.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Following the lecture I took to Pinterest to gather forms of type that caught my interest, not just for the physical part but also the digital part of the brief. During this I found particular interest in using food to create words and typefaces. I began to experiment on this idea using butter. The inspiration for this came from a title card used in a web series for SortedFood called Big Night In, in which the ‘IN’ is butter in a reverse timelapse to form the letters.

 

 

 

 

 

However, this tricky to get right as the butter was difficult to work with. Firstly, I attempted to  roll out cold butter onto a stencil of the word ‘MOLTEN’ in Anton font, but it was too thin and fell apart easily. From this I used a much thicker piece and carved it by hand into a letter, which was much more successful. Using my camera, I filmed the letter melting in a frying pan, which I later reversed and sped up to create a moving typeface.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As an alternative, I tried making typefaces with sugar, using a similar approach. Luckily, the stencil worked much better with the sugar, giving a sense of conformed messiness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On top of this, I attempted to create impressions of letters by hand into the sugar, creating a much more rustic typeface, whilst still using the Anton stencil as a reference.

 

 

 

 

Week 2

The second week paid particular attention to vector graphics and the digitally created typefaces for the brief.