This task is called 'Alphabet Soup' and involves us taking the typeface we chose from our last task (mine being Futura) and adapting and tweaking it to represent a specific word. The word I was assigned is 'violent', so to help me come up with ideas I made a mind map that would inspire me to be able to complete the task well.
The mind map did help me as i was able to think of many ways I could go with this word, The thing that interested me most is the fact that to represent violence I could make the typeface either thin for a sharp weapon-like representation or bold, to show dominance and strength. I explored these ideas briefly in a range of ways such as deleting counters to make the letters stand out more, getting rid of corners to add more exaggerated points.
One other aspect of violence that i found would be good for this task is 'destruction'. I thought I could break up the letters to make them seem they had been broken in some way. I looked at this and found a rather nice way of doing it without the letters becoming unreadable, although I need to try more letters to see if it is a feasible idea. I then went further with the idea of breaking the letter forms and destruction but instead of breaking them in lines and geometric shapes to fit Futura's style, to contrast I used curved sweeping lines to break up the letter. I hope that these lines are representative of marks left by a knife or any other violent weapon.
No comments:
Post a Comment