Final Envelope design
Produce an alphabet based on one of the letterforms you created from the Alphabet soup, visual thinking brief. Once again you are restricted to using one colour and it is to be produced in CMYK ( cyan, magenta, yellow, key). Although you are restricted to one colour you experiment with opacity and half tones.
Background/Considerations
Think visually. Consider what the visual essence of you subject matter is and hwo best to communicate it. How can these letterfroms that you create be developed further now that you are working digitally? The following terms may prove useful: Trace, edit, layer, combine, silhouette, positive /negative, contrast.
For this workshop the emphasis is on investigation and experimentation. You will develop a quantity of material that will allow you to maximise your understanding of the applications potential within the time available.
Make mistakes in order to learn from them.
I firstly started off choosing a letter to recreate, i selected this letterform because from my cirt it was choose as the best one by my peers. I also feel it is the strongest, because it represents the word 'layers' the best.
Staring to create the letterform
To start i drew this small rectangle and copied it several times, placing them in the shape of the letterform. Next using the blend tool that i described about on a earlier post (here). Then like joining the dots i created the shape.
This was the resulting shape shown on the right after duplicating the rectangle. Then after using the blend tool the H was created.
This was the resulting outcome after using the same technique above of all the alphabet. I feel it has produced a strong alphabet, with interesting shades within the letter creating a 3D look. Some letters also look as if they have been twisted because of how the rectangle has blended i.e. the E, G and O.
EXPERIMENTATION
I wanted to see what i could do with my alphabet so i started looking at different effects that could be done illustrator and basically having a play. I firstly changed it to look more 3D, i feel this has become too bubbly and has lost a lot of detail.
Next i created a glow and changed the colour of the typeface, like the 3D experiment this has lost all its detail and isn't very effective, it also doesn't represent layers anymore.
This one is similar, but there is a blend form one colour to another which i think is effective, it also unlike the one above has maintained its detail. Although this doesn't fit with the deliverables on the brief because it contains more than one colour.
As you can see below i then highlighted the alphabet and selected feather.
Next i wanted to see what it would look like if it was created by circles and not rectangles, so i again selected stylize and rounded corners.
This was the result of creating rounded edges, the shape turned into a oval, i think this is very effective and is just as strong as the original. Not only is the small shape that forms the letter rounded but it also transforms the overall shape of the letter, making it look softer and maybe in some sense smoother.
Next i again started to experiment with different effect techniques. So i selected the roughen to see what effect this gave thinking it would slightly alter the line of the small shapes.
This is the effect that it gave, creating shapes that look like they have been formed by bunches of screwed up paper. It has created a strong visual alphabet that again has strong contrast within the letters. Also the contrast between the curved letters and the crazy lines that form them.
The final experiment i did was to do the scribble, which can be seen below. I feel this isn't as controlled as the roughen effect because letters are starting to overlap each other and some letters also become illegible.
FINAL DESIGN
Writing with my typeface
Picture of my final design
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