OUGD403 Brief 2 - The Brief

STUDIO BRIEF 2 - VECTOR TYPE

Produce an alphabet based on one of the letterforms you 

created from the Alphabet Soup, Visual Thinking brief. 

You are restricted to working in black, however you may 

experiment with opacity and half tones.

Considerations

Think visually. Consider what the visual essence of your subject

matter is and how best to communicate it. How can these letterforms

that you created be developed further now that you are working

digitally? The following terms may prove useful:

Trace, edit, layer, combine, outline, silhouette, positive/negative,

contrast.

Make mistakes in order to learn from them.

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.

One of the problems with software is that everyone has access to

it but not everyone knows how to use it creatively. Abode

illustrator is primarily used for the generation of vector-based images

and as a type tool. When used as a means for visual investigation it

offers the potential for rapid generation of visual variations. The

possibilities of which can used as a springboard for further visual

research.

Requirements

In preparation for the first session you must (by scanning) digitise

the series of ten letterforms from the Alphabet Soup, Visual

Thinking brief (Studio Brief 01).

Also in preparation for the session you must create the bespoke

grid for your chosen letterform, this will assist in the creation of

the remaining letterforms.

Each resolved letterform should be supported by a broad range

of visual investigation in the form of design sheets and notebooks.

Deliverables

A3 poster (4x7 grid) printed in the digital print resource.

The bespoke grid you have created as a basis for the typeface.

A quantity of visual investigation/research relating to each letterform.

My Analysis of the Brief

To make the initial ten letterforms digital by scanning to use as a base,

to then create a grid for my chosen typeface 'Bodoni' but my version 

that can be used to create all 26 letters, this needs to be supported by

screen shots of development and original sketches of the chosen typeface

before being digitised. The final outcome to print on A3 my final design,

present the grid and research.