What is your favorite colour?
Purple
What is your earliest memory?
Mum leaving me on pebbles
Which living designer do you most admire, and why?
Michael Perry, because he does hand drawn stuff
What is your most treasured possessions?
Fat cat
What would your super power be?
Create money, only when needed, wouldn't be greedy
Who would play you in the film of your life?
Jackie Chan
Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
Jessie J or Alex Pettyfer
What makes you unhappy?
Boring people
What would be your fancy dress costume of choice?
Bin bag
Which words pr phrases do you most overuse?
'Dude' and 'no way'
After asking Abi these questions i decided to ask her a load of random questions, to try and find out her hobbies, bad habits, likes and dislikes. The answers were-
- loud, - slow (nickname snail), - Intelligent, - Not very tidy, - Unorganised, - Perfectionist, - Indecisive, - No hobbies, - Cant concentrate, - Bored easily, - Bubbly, - Mango, - 500 days of summer, - Drawing, - Karate, - Lively, - Cheesy films/Rom com, - Being outside, - New girl, - bargain hunter, - Ebay, - Strange/wired, - Forgetful, - Cheese, - fired onions, - Scared of dogs and heights,
After these questions i got the idea she was a lively, loud, bubbly personality so i tried to find some typefaces that in a way resembled her. Some of the typefaces i found are:
-Alba Super
-Bagadek
-Practicum
-News Gothic
After collecting these i asked Abi what designers she liked and researched them, shown on design context! I then started off combining different typefaces together to try and resemble her disorganised side, the 2 letters on the right shown below are what came of this, i also incorporated a pattern because most the designers i researched for her used a lot of pattern. I then took this idea to the typeface i feel was the best suited to her ( Alba Super ), not combining different types but just slightly editing it by adding a patter, shown on the left!
Leaving the idea shown above i started to look into the fact she has the nickname snail, as i thought this might produce some interesting alphabets and letterforms. Using the snail trail i traced over the typeface bagadek to try and create a line that when having the snail at the end looked like a snail trail. i feel this looks like a strong idea but the line is too thin and fragile and doesn't really resemble Abi very well.
I then started to expirement with a bolder more bubbly typeface, so i used alba super. Within the typeface i used a pattern that i selected from various artists that Abi liked ( Nikki Farquharson and Andy Smith ). I feel this produced a strong typeface that was visually interesing not only this but it provides a strong representation of Abi. The negatives of the type is that its only a pattern within a type so could be preseaved as boring and on some letters might not be legibale.
After this i took the snail idea and adapted it to the bolder type to combine the 2 ideas, this then doesn't use a thin fragile typeface so resembles Abi in a better way. I started off trying to use the pattern and incorporate the snail trail but that just got lost within it, so i took the trail through every letter trying to form the shape inside it. So if the bold typeface was taken away and you were jsut left with the line it would still form a alphabet.
I next drew the path through the letters so i could see what the final outcome might look like and so i got a visual representation of where to go through the letters. I feel it looks very effective and i like how the line forms the letters, so if the outside letter was to be taken away it would still form the alphabet. I also like how it flows taken the viewers eye all over the page.
After deciding on the path, to start i printed out the typeface i was going to use in the layout i wanted. I then started to trace the outer outline of the shape, so i could then formulate the direction of the snail trail and how the composition works. I think the typeface is really suited to Abi even without the white line inside it, because it still provides a bubbly/lively typeface.
This is the final resolution to the project (shown below). i feel visually it has worked well and some of the letters are very eligible but others are not, also if i was to right a word where the letters are not next to each other as seen in the alphabet it may not work or may not produce such a visually strong piece of work. I do feel though that this is a strong representation of Abi and some of the lines through the letters work really well, like the A, F G, O, ", ?, @ and the full stop.
This is the name card i produced on illustrator using the same typeface that i created above, although i had to slightly adjust the way the line flowed through the typeface because it wouldn't of worked as well. I then inserted the snail to make it fit in with the typeface and to resemble Abi as well.
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