Alphabet soup - Typeface. OUGD403

Brief

Design a typeface for a full alphabet and glyphs (a to z, !, ?, @, £, :, .) that represents the personality/character of your partner. You will discover their personality/character through a series of set questions. Using your newfound appreciation of the anatomy of typographic forms and the wealth of research that you have already gathered, focus on the manipulation of existing letterforms in order to solve this problem.

Background / Considerations

Experiment with a range of possible line qualities, marks, colour and paper types. How will colour help the communication? What papers can you work with? Do you need to draw, photocopy, photograph, collage, trace or combine processes? Your final resolutions should read as convincing, well crafted and clearly presented typographic forms.

The person that I am making my typeface for is Ellen.

 Questionnaire

 What is your favourite colour? Black

What is your earliest memory? In nursery, fighting over the rainbow coloured bike

Which living designer do you most admire, and why? Antony Peters, Simple and colourful designs, quirky and interesting.

What is your most treasured possession? Macbook

What would your super power be? To be able to read minds

Which piece of graphic design do you wish you had created? Either the Apple or the coca cola brand

Who would play you in the film of your life? Emma Stone

Who would you invite to your dream dinner party? Robert Pattinson, Heath Ledger and Ellen Degeneres. 

What makes you unhappy? Animal cruelty

What would be your fancy dress costume of choice? A dorito or an Ork.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse? OMG, Awesome, Groovy, All that jazz, Haha. 

Before researching into typefaces i wanted to get a better idea of who Ellen was as a person, so i came up with a few more questions of my own that i thought would do this. I found out that she is a very loud and confident person, so my typeface has to be big and bold with lots of pattern. However she prefers clean and simple lines so i will have to keep the pattern simple and to a minimum to suit it more to her taste. Her favourite designer is Antony Peters who uses very simple pattern and colour which i think is really beautiful, so this will be my starting point for research.

Antony Peters - aka Imeus design

Antony Peters uses mostly design for print, particularly screen printing with many layers and bright colours. The lines are really clean and simple but there is always an element of pattern or repeated pattern in his work. I love how he keeps to a limited colour palette in his pieces and how simple the actual designs are, but when layered up on top of one another then prints work really well both as a single piece or within a collection. 

More research into Typefaces:

Studio8 design

Studio8 do a lot of design work for print in magazines and books, and a lot of typeface design. I love their way of playing around with the layout and size of the type on a page and i think it works very effectively.