Typography

This week we are learning about typography. We have three assignments.

The first one is to create a "ransom" note by cutting letters out of magazines. The idea is to use the fonts to create a dramatic demand. My ransom note reads "Drop the salad and no one gets hurt" It is signed by Mars, a familiar name in chocolate! I looked for fonts that looked like junk food, and found a PopTart "S" and a Willy Wonka "M". Actually, it is a "W" but I turned it upside down. This was a nice project that opened my eyes to the many ways font can be used to deliver a message.

Our second assignment was to take a sentence and write it out using fonts to make the sentence look like what it says. Hmm, that sounds confusing. Basically, we had to "write" an expressive sentence. I selected the sentence "They were saturated with happiness". I drew all the "T"s to look like umbrellas and the "r"s to look like leaking water faucets. The rest of the letters were puffed up as if full of water. There are also some drops on them. I used a mixture of oil paints, markers and water colors for this project. The idea was to make it look as if all the letters were so full, so saturated with water that they looked ready to burst.

The last asssignment dealing with typography was to create a logo with our initials. I shall be uploading that soon.