So first day back at school, we chatted through our up and coming term and conversed over the George Perec book we were meant to of read.
This was all well and good, until i realised how things still havent changed since secondary school. Medeocraty still exists within the rehlms of my educational framwork. I am not talking about the teaching staff, quite the contrary. The lackadasical students around me.
This shant effect us, any longer NOW we have our own rooommmmmmm……!……( below)
well anyway, Hamish gave us our first typographic workshop.
all we had was a H2,HB and B2 pencils a rule & an eraser. We had to enlarge the sheet of printed type we all got that said ‘w i d g e t ‘ on. All in various sans serif typefaces. two types of Helvetica, two types of Univers and Akzidenz grotesque faces.
we had from 1130 till 4pm to do this, we had to produce a ‘beautiful drawing’.
It was more about appreciating that typeface design is not simply about enlarging or decreasing a fixed design, you have to realises the nuances of stroke width contrast, thick and thins, horizontals and virticals for reasons of legibility, readability, clarity and overall continuity in character design. Realising that the counters that look good a sizez 12 point, look disjointed and disfigured at 40 point. The hardest part from my experience was drawing the counters and harmonising them in a logic fashion.
I spent 2 hours working everything out
I spent 2 hours and 20 minutes drawing the w, i, d, g, and 10 minutes drawing the e,t…. AS you can probably tell by the horrendous rush job at the end.
none the less
here are the results from the day:
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