Trinity Poster

OMG my mac just died because I had inDesign open! This had better not be the demise of the Maccy King! Time to buy a hard disk drive methinks! Well this is the poster I designed to showcase my new Trinity typeface. I wanted to add a texture to the background but considering it made my mac die, I decided just to export it and be done with it:


I think, from carrying out this little experiment, that I'm not actually that interested in creating my own fonts. I prefer to use what has already been created by professionals. I like editing already made fonts but creating one from scratch is too much hassle. This experiment took a bit of time and it doesn't even look that good. I work better with body copy and so that is what I shall stick with.

Trinity

Here is the font I made! This was the first version:

After I looked at all the characters together I decided some didn't fit that well and were too linear instead of geometric. Things like the b, d, and y were far too pointy and had different thickness of line. I needed to make them look a bit more rounded. This is the final version:

Not bad for my first attempt at making a font, not involving marshmallows (good times on art foundation!). Still not happy with the b though... any suggestions?

Triangles

Here is a really rough sketch of how I want the characters in my font to look. I based it on basic geometric shapes - squares, rectangles, circles and triangles. I don't think I've seen a font that uses triangles as counters before so that is what I tried to achieve. On some letters this was a bit hard considering I want the font to be somewhat legible but I think it has potential. I decided to call it Trinity because the triangular counters are an important feature of the typeface.

Red Update

Here are the final spreads for my red journal 'When In Doubt Wear Red'. It was nice to do some illustration for a change and something that was a bit free-er than some commercial/competition briefs. I think I prefer doing something with more restrictive guidelines however, so the next thing I do will probably be more corporate. Anyhow, here are the spreads:

When In Doubt Wear Red

I've decided to call my red journal 'When In Doubt Wear Red', which is a quote by fashion designer Bill Blass. I'm still working on it but here are the front cover + spine and my 'In The Company Of Wolves' spread. I think the white looks a bit stark, gonna try a colour or texture to represent a nicer stock.

In The Company Of Wolves

So I just spent a couple of hours drawing out my interpretation of Little Red Riding Hood. I'm going to experiment with this in a dps later accopanied either by a line from or the entire Angela Carter story 'In The Company Of Wolves'.



For once I don't think this is actually that bad! Is it possible I'm getting better at illustration?! :O

Red, Green, Blue

So the first brief that I'm starting work on is called Red, Green, Blue from ISTD 2005.

Colours are very emotive and offer a wealth of opportunities for research. Red can conjure up images of Father Christmas, postboxes and Manchester United; green of envy, The Incredible Hulk and grass; and blue conjures up images of sky, denim and ink—or do they? Where you live, your interests, beliefs, politics and your cultural background will offer a wide variation of associations with each colour or their
combinations.

Using red, green, blue as a starting point for in-depth research and brainstorming, develop a theme and format for a journal. While using the term ‘journal’ we would urge you to consider it in the broadest terms. The journal will be published as a limited edition in three parts. Each part will combine a series of texts and images based upon one of the colours. Each edition will be printed in two colours – black and red, black and green or black and blue. While this may initially seem to limit your design opportunities, a generous production budget allows you to exercise the imaginative use of materials, print production and finishing methods that should help make the journal a highly sought after, collectors’ item.

Underpinning the aesthetic and tactile opportunities of the journal is the typographic interpretation of the colour. This will require incorporation of at least 1,000 words of text matter and associated imagery. The text matter should visualise your expression of a hierarchy of information and typographic functions. This will additionally be detailed in the typographic specifications.

I have decided to work on the red and black issue using a magazine format. The content will be based on colour and not any other theme. I plan to use a mixture of typography, photography and illustration to complete this brief as the colour red can be interpreted in any of these formats. I think the work will still be word driven considering this is an ISTD brief but it will be very visual - using poems, lyrics and sayings - as opposed to lengthy blocks of copy. The target audience is other designers so it needs to have lots of visual impact. I think this project relates well to the print project that we did at the beginning of year two. Mono, duo and halftones of red and black as well as layout are what will bring the pieces together as one body of work. The brief says to do a front & back cover and a minimum of four double page spreads. Lets see how I go!

I've already brainstormed and collected some research so I think its just a matter of getting on with individual pieces and then bringing them together in a magazine format. Currently thinking of doing some illustrations of famous red heads hehe.