Eleventy Handmade: folded paper typeface

Create a TYPEFACE

The new brief of creating your own type face based on photographs that we've taken.
Typeface, and typography are taking over the illustration world in my eyes. more modern illustrators are incorporating type into their illustration someone using typefaces an the actual illustration. so with this brief it will allow me as an illustrator to show my own typefaces.

i think its important to look at what illustrators and graphic designers are doing today with typeface to give me an idea of what i am competing with

Eleventy Handmade: folded paper typeface

with this typeface, its based around cut and folded cut outs of images and block colours, which is then extended using lines and curves. i like the contrast of the hard edges and the smooth line drawings.

Building block typeface

colour is another aspect that can bring a typeface alive.

Here's a different way in which a type face can be created. using solid abjects that can be easily transformed .

This blog has loads of experimental practise with typefaces .. have a look !

http://s-thompson1013-dp.blogspot.com/2010/10/alphabet-soup-creating-typeface.html

I particulary like this one because the detail they've gone into to transform the angle of perception on this typeface.

This piece of typography just goes to show you ave detailed a type face can be whilst still holding that important, significant structure that we recognised as a letter.

Experiments

On photoshop i picked a random object which happened to be a Dyson vacuum cleaner, and transformed it to create a structure of the alphabet. It took so long trying to manipulate each piece to make it look like each letter. Here is what it turned out like.

Dysons cam easily be recongised by the strong colours frequently feature in the design, as well as an unusual design compared to the traditional vacuums. 

Creating a curve out of an object that has mainly strong straight structure parts, is what i found most tricky. But i was lucky enough that Dyson have many models of vacuum, that come in various shapes and sizes. This is a subject matter that truck me to be more interesting than i originally thought.

Using photoshop i was able to construct the whole Alphabet using single Dyson Machines to represent the original forms of the Alphabet. 

The outcome of this was more visually appealing than looking at a straightforward Dyson. out of all my methods so far i think this one is more interesting to look at as well as slightly more complex.

Can You See What They Are ? 

Carring on from my vacuum typeface, i started to create the type itself out of the physical object. Using the lead from the vacuum i created A-R. these images to me do what i planned out, but are visually interesting. They lack colour and texture. Although they do create negative space that maybe could be worked on to uplift them from a basic flat image.

Here's is another experiment i've done. This time including other aspect that are linked toward the dyson. The "cleaning' part. taking the idea of a mess on a carpet and creating the type from that. The type is clear and is bold. This method would also work with the number's 1-10 as and type can be selected out of the mess. But is this the best ?