Letter Project - 50 sketches

Later we are choosing from these, adding color, and eventually spray chalking them on campus!

Ransom Note

Class Exercise # 1 - Ransom Note

List of descriptive words:

• silly
• goofy
• art-y
• childish
• inappropriate
• girly
• boyish
• computer gamer
• weird
• unpredicatable
• giggly
• smiley
• multimedia
• social
• talkative
• chatty
• crazy
• loud
• young
• friendly
• positive
• open-minded
• creative
• crafty
• hands-on
• DIY
• thrifty

John Baskerville & Mrs. Eaves

Discovering Type

 When I was snooping around the internet for Type related images, I found it very interesting how many of them were actually 3-dimensional objects. Lots of 3D letters, and lots of type on 3D objects. Something I found kind of humorous was needlepoint with really sarcastic phrases. It was interesting to me to choose something as old-fashioned and cutesy as needlepoint in a frame or on a pillow, and then to add like a rap lyric of something as the text.

I also have always loved Shigeo Fukuda and here is a link to the website that has some cool use of type:

http://www3.icm.gov.mo/gate/gb/www.macauart.net/Gallery/ShowIndexE.asp?cid=165&id=146

I have never really looked at designs or ads for the typography aspect, but when I went back through some saved artwork that I like, I noticed Shigeo Fukuda actually works with letters a little. He uses the letter F extensively. You can see this on the website, and I have added a few images of some examples below.