Cheese Project

Potatype

A typographic experiment with potatoes. This has been a personal experiment rather but have found uses for it in some other projects. As the process was rather lengthy I thought it would merit being documented in some sort of book.

The Serif Thief/Control Room

This was my first attempt at designing a font. Overall I found the process very satisfying and had been meaning to give it a go for some time. It generated from an idea for a recent brief titled 'Urban Myths and Legends'. I invented a character named 'The Serif Thief' who simply is a being who steals serifs from fonts. Whilst designing I tried to keep things as simple as possible and fittingly create a sans serif (although as I later discovered the uppercase I and both U's have serifs...). The poster below was designed to inform people about the characters existence. You can 'follow the thief' on twitter if your into twittering. At first it was a place the character expresses his whereabouts and doings but has accumulated into documenting various snippets about typography in general.

In the long run i've decided to name the font 'Control Room' based on the restrictions of the equal sided grid each glyph was designed in. Still got some tightening up to do and will make sure to report on the progress in the future.

London Postcards

Below are a series of postcards for a brief based on London.

 

They were fairly successful but possibly too stylized, although I do like the systematic links. I am beginning to realise that there are lots of mistakes to be made, and there is a lot to learn from said mistakes.

Estate Agent project

This is my outcome for the latest graphic design brief. We were given a starting point of a fictional estate agents, Paddock & Piddock. As i've been experimenting with illustrative styles of type over the past few weeks I thought it be best to apply this to the task. I also have created an A5 flyer that folds open to reveal a variation of 'pop up' scenery.

The Cup and Question

Man on coffee cup 2008. Coloured pencil, marker and paper cup.