//My 10 Final Letters//

Here are my final designs from The Alphabet Soup// Visual thinking brief, overall the designs work well together, they are all bold and from the feedback they all seems to be legible. In the crit  many of the letters were left until the second last round, but were then removed when they were questioned about being linked to the given word (build) If the brief were to be done again, it would be traced from digital images so that they would be neater and more presentable.

The thought behind this one came from the idea that whenever a building is built, ladders are almost always used in the process, so the letter was produced from ladders.

This one came from the idea that Whenever things are build, they always need something to hold them together, in this case it is a nut and bolt, holding the different areas of the Letter together.

This ideas is probably one of the more simply ideas, the letter is simply sitting in a build up brick wall.

This ideas was simple also, the letter gradually builds up and gets larger from the bottom upwards.

This letter is supposed to look like a building, or even a tower block with different floors built on top of one another, the building is shaped in the later H to show the letter from.

This letter works by building layer upon layer to form the H, almost like epics of wood or metal built on top one another.

This Letter was produced by layering Circles of top of each other, they look like they have been built up, to form the letter.

This letter came from the idea of Building lines up tho form the letter, this letter used negative space in order to make the letter legible. 

Once again this letter is simple in the sense that it is made to look like the later is formed by a brick wall which has again been built up.

This letter is formed by placing letters upon one another, it is the least successful out of all the letters as it could be many words other than 'Build'.

Experimentation

Build may refer to:

• The process of building or construction
• Physical body stature, especially muscle size; usually of the human body

• 1. To form by combining materials or parts; construct. 2. To order, finance, or supervise the construction of: The administration built several new housing projects. 3. To develop or give form to according to a plan or process; create: build a nation; built a successful business out of their corner grocery store. 4. To increase or strengthen by adding gradually to: money building interest in a savings account; build support for a political candidate. 5. To establish a basis for; found or ground: build an argument on fact.

I have experimented with different images and ways of working here are just a few of them, i have used black ink on which paer as i will do for my final images,  these are just rough ideas but they give an indication as to what my final letters will look like. 

ALPHABET SOUP//TYPEFACE

The brief was to produce a typeface which visually communicates a partner's interests or personality traits. The aim was to create this typeface on A1 tracing paper along side a Name bags for your partner to wear which had to be 45mm x 90mm. We were given a series of questions to ask a partner, here are a few from the sheet, which i asked Greg , my partner.

1. When were you most happy? - when Everton beat MAN U in the semi finals
2. What is our greatest fear? - spiders
3. What is your earliest memory? - Playing football in a feels with Grandad
4. What would your super power be? - stretchy legs 
5. What makes you unhappy?- referees and spiders
6. where would you most like to live? - London
7. if you could change one thing about yourself what would it be? - Height
8. Any bad habits? - smoker
9. Favourite smell? - Chocolate

From these questions I came up with five related words which were appropriate to Greg and 5 more related to them, in order to generate more ideas.

After thinking of connecting words, i took two of them and combined them so that they described him better, for example I used confident and chocoholic and produce letter which work together with the words. 

So from these questions i came up with the idea of basing my alphabet either on Greg's love of football or hate for spiders. started to look at imagery which liked firstly to football. 

I have started to look at characteristics which relate to spiders as i think that there is some good imagery, in comparison to football which i am finding difficult to relate to. However I have decided which typeface i will base my final Letters on, It will be helvetica and it will be very bold, I will slightly change a few of the letters so that they are less recognisable as  helvetica, and more original. I have drawn all of them out and filled them in with my sharpie i have copies of them before they are filled in so that i can fill them with something else.

you can tell that a few of the letters have been slightly alternated, like the B which has a tilt on it and the Q which has also been modified. After deciding which typeface to uses i then started to play around with pattern and shape.

I then looked at how i could make the letters connect to greg, they had to be link to his personality or his likes or dislikes. the most obvious thin to do was foot ball and as greg said that one of the things which he hated most in the world was referees i decided to do my letters in referee stripes. However after our crit, the feedback was that the letters looked like they were linked to newcastle United football club which was not was i was trying to communicate so i decided not to use these as my final letter designs. from Greg's questions i found that there were more things which he didn't like that had imagery which could be used more, I decided to look at using spider webs as a fill for my letter forms, as Greg's greatest fear is spiders and i thought this would be a bit different from doing something which he loved. 

I came up with this idea for my final designs, i this it is visually pleasing but i think maybe if i were to do the project again i would ask more questions about what he does like as it seems a little bit contradictory basing my letters on something which Greg doesn't like. After Finalising my designs I got them printed out on A1 in Black in order to trace them on to A1 tracing paper!

//How too experimentation//

Our group came up with some ideas which can hopefully lead to final designs. with some editing and perfecting these will be used as our  How to avoid the alkward moment when you forget to where stripes on stripey Friday Posters.

//Alphabet Soup//10 of my Favourite letters//

Over the summer we were asked to complete a series of tasks for the beginning of the course, one of which was to produce an alphabet which visually communicates your own personally or interests. Here are my 10 favourite letters from my alphabet. My alphabet was based on what i did over the summer, so my letters all had individual themes, all of which were linked to my 3 month trip to Europe, I focused on all the different things which reminded me of my travels and my time working in Croatia. I think if i were to do it again I would use photoshop, in order to give the letters a cleaner finish.

I designed my letters so that each one represents something ,I and J Stand for Ice cream and Jet skis. 

W and X stand for Watermelon and Xiphias (Swordfish)

C and D stand for Croatia and Dolphins

A stands for Aeroplane and B stands for Boats

Y stands for Yacht week and Z sands for Zadar, a city in Croatia.

 Part two of the task was to find 20 examples of each letter in the alphabet, I used the internet and magazines to do this. I used David Airey's Website as i really like his Alphabets, he uses many different ways of working such as Human bodies, photography and light. http://www.davidairey.com/alphabet-photo-art-gallery/