Experimentation
In this stage of my process & production module I furthered my skills in the physical studio workshops. In this task we had to gather our chosen typography layouts, which we had previously created in the lesson before. I decided to choose my first type form which was based on music and how music is written as I felt it was the strongest, however I also believed they all worked very well together so this was a tough decision to make but I made a decision through process of elimination and also asking my flat mates which they thought was best. With our chosen typography we had to develop it into a physical form.
The typography I had
chosen was a very fancy and fresh looking type, due to it being based of the
shapes used in writing music. Therefore I wanted to develop this type into a
physical form, which would give it crisp edges and not distract your attention
away from the type its self. I first tried to stencil my design and paint
the type onto the page with a fine brush, although after many attempts I could
not get the paint to stop bleeding under the stencil. My development I decided
to use stencils and a quail and that looked okay but still wasn’t what I was
wanting and I very much so liked the paint aspect of my idea so I used a paint
sponge to print the type onto slides of paper.
To do this I rendered
my typeface onto the computer first and then printed it out onto thick sheets
of paper in which I would then cut out the type from the paper. To transfer the
type onto the other piece of paper I used a paint sponge, I did this so I could
try and get a nice even finish over each of the letters and there be no patches
but to be honest it didn’t work out for me for my first two attempt’s but
thankfully it worked out well on the third attempt. The paint and crisp lines
however it wasn't 100% effective when creating crisp lines this is were a
screen print system would have been useful and have given me a much better out
come and finish.
