Alphabet Soup 2

'Sarah'

This is my final alphabet, I liked the idea of working with negative space as it invited the idea of using bright spotlights to highlight what I wanted.

Here I was just testing out a few ideas. Attempting to create something which actually looked 80's. (above) I feel this one looks a bit too much like graffiti. I created it by just using the outline of the below letterforms. (below) liked the idea of using simple shapes and block colours against a black background as it seemed to be a recurring theme in 80's graphics. This just wouldn't work on the tracing paper, couldnt get a block, black background.

For this brief we had to interview someone from our year group and from the interview decide on four words which described that person. These words were then to be used to produce an alphabet which represented that person. As always there were constraints to this; manipulate an already existing font, presented on A1 sized tracing paper (had to consider how to use colour because of this) with this to produce a name badge for the person your new type face is based on.

The four words I chose to start with were; Art Nouveau, 80's films, cultural, bubbly.

I decided to change art nouveau to the 80's as after testing a few ideas I found it hard to create something original. I also felt like the 80's was more representative of sarah.

I looked at various fonts to manipulate but decided to use 'futura' as its simple qualities worked well with the words I had chosen.