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My very first thought when I think of puppeteer was wood and strings. Hence as a sketch I just found some wood looking font to remind myself of the idea. However having just done two illustrator based font I decided to make something.

I cut my name out of foam and hung it with wire as a sketch model. I wanted to play with the idea that I wanted to be a string and shadow puppeteer, as seen below.

However it did not create much visual interest and hence I decided to concentrate on shadow puppets as I was already playing with shadows. The shadow puppet closest to home is the wayang kulit and hence I decided to base my font on that.

I first drew it on a piece on mounting board. And after the first letter I decided to just do my initials as four very detailed fonts seemed a little overwhelming as a composition.

I attempted to cut it and then realised my mistake of drawing on mounting board as it was too difficult to trace. Hence I moved it over to illustrator and did an image trace.

And then printed it on transparency so I could shine a light through and cast a shadow without having to cut anything.

I also struggled with the photography part is I initially had my friend help me hold the transparency and hold the light while I take a photo. The photos were good as the angle was off.

So after many attempts I decided to do it like how an actual show would have done it.

I had the light cast from behind then the transparency then the screen, which made it much easier to get my desired effect.

 

For the job of a Mortician, a few things came into mind. Namely soil,ashes,hearse, the morgue and embalming. Hence I tried to use all these elements in my designs.

This sketch was to allude to the morgue but it was too graphic.

This was the tools used by a mortician but it looked too much like a make up artist.

I tried to use the hearse but I felt that it was rather boring and could be very much associated with a funeral director. Although a mortician might sometimes do the job of a funeral director.

This was made with ashes from burnt charcoal, and although I found this concept interesting. It was hard to tell the ashes were ashes.

Hence I finally decided on a Y-cut autopsy which came after a conversation with my friend who watched too much CSI.

I used a stitch brush to write my name out. I wanted the font to be subtle as stitches arent usually so obvious. I also wanted a sense of realism.

To create this image, I tried my hands at using special effects and making the cut by hand. I followed a video on youtube, and ended up with this :

Which I then heavily edited as it was too fake. It was pretty fun trying to do it though!

  

My initial ideas were all centered around the tools used as a food stylist. However with some research I found out the tools used were generic everyday tools such as scissors and glue. Hence it was hard to compose a piece that would represent a food stylist.

So I decided to go with food photography, which is what an actual food stylist would do. I was leaning towards images such as

Basically to use real food and inedible items to compose a photo. However I was not too confident of my photog skills and also thought that it would be concentrated on the font. Hence I decided to use illustrator where it was easy to achieve minimal and concentrate on the font.

So I decided on a burger bun as food stylist are known for gluing on every individual seed on to the bun to make the perfect bun. 

When going into I wanted it to be as simplistic as possible, representing the bun with a simple circle. However when I asked my friends to guess what it was, most of  them said soup, and guess chef as the job. Hence I decided that I need to add in some greens and a tweezer to make things a little clearer.

However this composition was a bit off and stiff, hence I played around with the placement of the tweezer and came up with my final result.