During week 11 there was an assessed presentation on my final design and intended outputs for typography. The Einstein brief was also assessed.
For this I created a Pdf from an indesign file and presented my near finished design product.
In this presentation I’ve shown my research from prior and the development of my ideas towards final hand in standards, at this point the only outputs that are missing are my website and my Mobile applications.
After getting part of my infographic to a near finished standard I wanted to finalise my typeface and work on getting it to a standard where it’s near the ability of practical usage. After creating some new letter forms a few weeks prior to this I decided I wanted the overall theme to match the new letters I made.
I also made slight alterations to previous letters which didn’t match the standards I wanted.
After creating the letters: Q rs tu, prior I wanted to focus on the sharp flicks on my letters, I also focused on creating letters as descenders and Ascenders, similar to what you’d expect from old scribe writing.
As an overall typeface I’m really happy with how it turned out, and I feel as though I gained a great understanding of the software through trial and error.
During the 8th workshop I decided to revisit my typeface a little bit before the week 12 deadline. I had an idea of creating a full working typeface in order to create a product for my final hand in. The idea I had was to create a scroll with my letters on it addressed to a character from Game of Thrones which is what the font is from.
I created a few more letters and generally started to get a feel for an overall theme with my type. Because I only made 6 letters prior it felt incomplete and almost as if there was nothing aesthetically pleasing about it, so I created the letters Q, rs, tu.
These letters in comparison to my others felt a lot better, visually speaking I like the smoother curves and more prominent and sharp flicks.
Upon creating my new letters I feel as though I’m going to revise the letter forms I’ve already made in order to keep it more thematic.
During workshop 5 the group was asked to present their work and the research that had gone in to creating their letter forms. Using the skills learnt in the workshop prior I decided to use Indesign to create the presentation. My presentation mainly consisted of the same research that my blog had been keeping, so transferring and adapting it wasn’t difficult.
For my practical example piece of work I decided to pick a book cover, but I wasn’t too impressed with the overall result. After playing with different ideas I decided that I’m going to make a full alphabet and put it to use on a real product for my final hand in.
After doing enough research I settled on the idea of creating a fantasy font/typeface. The idea I settled on is related to Game of Thrones, I wanted to create my own take on the font used in the show which is called “Valyrian”. Examples of the font already exist online, so rather than just copying from others, I borrowed certain forms that are commonplace and made my own variations.
The letter forms I created borrow from old styles of traditional handwriting, similar to something you’d expect to see on a scroll or something similar. Overall I’m really pleased with the traditional look to it. Using illustrator a lot more in depth has also been challenging but fun. Although the brief requirements are only 6 characters I’m thinking about creating a whole alphabet so I can use it on a final product without it being complete gibberish.
