Hello! 🙂 My zine is based on objects and textures that I’ve found interesting in Pasir Ris. From these textures and objects, I would experiment the different kinds of patterns that I can create from there. To start off, I’ve done drawings of the things I saw in Pasir Ris, after which I’ll scan them in. Initial Idea… Read more →
For my Henna Designer, I wanted to incorporate mandala designs into the font and the alphabets would be inside and be part of the mandala, as seen in the two drafts below. To imitate the colours of the Henna, I tried using different shades of the brown colour pencils. However, the tip… Read more →
Florist are always associated with flowers. Therefore, my first few drafts are all fonts surrounded by flowers. I was also interested in Artist Sabeena Karnik‘s typography where alphabets are being created by flowers surrounding it. However, after looking at these two drafts, I feel that I would prefer having the flowers making up the font and not the font made… Read more →
For writer, I thought of using crumpled papers to show the rejected ideas that writers have crumpled up and discarded. Thus, explaining my first draft. After the first draft, I thought it looked quite boring if all of the alphabets were made up of crumpled paper. Therefore, I tried to make the different alphabets be made… Read more →
For Architect, I had a clear picture from the start that I wanted buildings to make up the font. Therefore, I sketched a small draft below. After this draft, I was really confident that for Architect, I wanted a thick, blocky font that is made up of buildings. I went on to sketch another draft but now including twirling… Read more →