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Project Goals:
•Digitally capture and create a twenty-six character English alphabet using only handmade, environmental or found
letterforms.
•Edit and adjust your raster images using Adobe Photoshop.
•Establish a common over-arching theme in the visual imagery
•Produce a final poster in Adobe Illustrator following the provided technical specifications.
For this project I explored the different letters I could make using plants. I used an x-acto knife to cut the plants in a way that I could arrange them to make an environmental alphabet. I went outside to use natural sunlight and placed the plants on a whiteboard to create a neutral background. For font choice I used Calibri. For the color choice I used plants with mostly red, green, and pink colors. When placing my images in photoshop I used the camera raw filter to increase the vibrancy and saturation.
Revisions:
I changed the temperature on letters D, G, J, Q, T, Y, and Z in photoshop to create a more visually cohesive piece. Before it was distracting having those letters against a warmer background than the rest of the letters. I also straightened the letters I, J, S, T, W, and Y. These letters appeared slightly slanted compared to the others and I wanted the poster to be more uniform.
For the B&W version I was able to keep the images linked in illustrator while editing by using the "edit in photoshop" option in the properties panel. I adjusted each image to be B&W.
Original, unedited image for the letter "S" formed by shoes. Sole of the shoes forms the spine of the letters, with a black background to have contrast.
A type I project where we had to create an array of the alphabet using a series of found letterforms, either rubbings or photographs. The layout for my grid was derived from signing the Alphabet song we all learned as little kids in my head. I took the beat of this song and created this grid based on that rhythm.
Experimenting with various media and the layering of typography and then creating an abstract realisation inspired by the work of both Jasper Johns and Howard Hodgkin.
PROCESS
Based on your sketches and feedback, design the complete alphabet from A – Z using your preselected shapes as the basis for the design. Do the following:
•Finalize sketches– CLEAN up any pencil marks, smudges, rough edges
-If needed, fill in / outline using a fine tip Sharpie style marker
•Scan your final sketches and place in Illustrator
•Produce your final alphabet in Adobe Illustrator
-Create your shapes as vector elements using the pen tool or shape tool
-Stick to and refine the system, until the letterforms feel consistent.
-Gradually construct more characters.
-Test letters in words periodically to expose any flaws and/or inconsistencies.
•Create a full alphabet consisting of all letters from A-Z in Illustrator
For this design, I created the shapes with a pen tool instead of moving individual shapes to create the letterforms, so I accidentally flipped some of the shapes.
Experimental letterforms which represent 'alone and crowded', 'alone' can be seen at the top left corner of the page. Using different weights of fine line pen and letraset.
Chicago Printers Guild cook out. Waaay too much meat. But somehow I'm pretty sure it was all gone by the end of the night.