Today I was tasked with making posters out of 3 different typefaces Cooper Black , Baskerville and Futura. I am a fan of all of these fonts but my hand written type skills are not very polished. I had particular issue with the letter 'S' due to its unnatural curve and difficulty to keep consistent.
Before I laid out my designs I would do little test layouts since I was working with paper and pencil I had the limitation of not being able to alter what I initially create, this encouraged me to think more about the initial layout of the type.
Before I laid out my designs I would do little test layouts since I was working with paper and pencil I had the limitation of not being able to alter what I initially create, this encouraged me to think more about the initial layout of the type.
Sometimes the process of just looking and fabricating type in a traditional format can give a more free-flowing and analogue appeal. I feel I really began to understand the process and feel more comfortable with the fonts by the time I got to my final hand drawn poster.
After the session was over I decided to adapt my final poster to be a digital image, I vectorised the image and then decided to play around with the shapes in the type to experiment with other more abstract pieces.
