DIY Alphabet

Exploring Type 

This week, we looked at type and different interfaces and how they can communicate different things to an audience, and why some work better for somethings, and why others don't. To begin with, we were tasked with creating a quick 'Selfie Letter', something that communicated our personalities.

​Finding inspiration that was close and quickly was key as I am a slow worker as it is, so with the help of what I had in front of me, I came up with the following design. 

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I decided to use the letter 'S' simply because it allowed me to create a more flowing design, as opposed to trying to cram a design into a letter that was only made up of straight lines, such as the letter 'A'. It was a little bit of a rush to get the design done in the time frame, hence why it's on the messier side, but at least I was able to get something down. 

Afterwards, I scanned in the letter to quickly give it better colours and cleaner lines digitally, as well as to mess around with the colour scheme, seeing what it would have looked like if I hadn't used colours at all, and instead created a monotone piece. The white on black made an interesting outcome, something that would have been difficult to achieve effectively traditionally 

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Type Quiz

Additionally, before we began on exploring our own DIY Alphabets, we were asked to complete a quick Typeface Quiz, with my answers being as follows;