After discovering Project 1 will be mainly on typography, I was a little excited, but also panicking slightly!

I didn’t have much knowledge on TYPOGRAPHY so I googled and went on pinterest to know more about it, and for inspiration! 

 

picture2  picture1

 

Typography basically a style of arranging text. It can come in so many different forms such as arranging different icons/visuals to form text and even creating a whole new style of font. laughing

 

Visual References

I quickly brainstormed for my job ideas and looked up for visuals that could be associated with.

 

Lawyer

Hairwig | Balance | Hammer | Books | Court

Singer/musician

Musical notes | Piano | Music score sheet | Multi-instrumentalist

Doctor

Stethoscope | ECG | Medicine | White uniform | Organs | Blood Vessels

Director

Director’s chair | Slate | Camera Equipment | Studio Lighting | Loudspeaker

TaiTai

Poodle | Make-up | Bags | Nail Polish | Heels | Mahjong | Car Keys

Astronaut

Galaxy | Spacesuit | Rocket | Mars Rover | Moon | Asteroids | Satellite

Yoga Instructor

Yoga Poses | Zen | Clean 

Forensic Scientist

Matrix | Fingerprint | Lab 

Wine taster

Wine bottles | Cork | Corkscrew | Wine Glass | Lips | Tongue | Eyes

Sleeper

Bed | Counting sheeps | Zzz | Snoring | Pillows & Blankets | Dark Eye Circles

Dealer

Poker cards | Casino | Chips | Dealer gloves

 

Reference Artists/ Inspirations

For further exploration, I looked up different font styles and below are few which inspired me!

 

Typography on music notes
http://luc.devroye.org/music.html

picture3

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based art director who made the music note-inspired typeface

I was then inspired to try and spell my name with this font!

img_3553

 

Human Typography
https://djstormsblog.com/2013/06/21/pinch-martin-tremblay-human-typography/

picture4

I am really passionate in film and photography, and when I first saw this I was so amazed. I love it! This is really creative, to use just our natural bodies to form alphabets. A great idea, and this has inspired me to include bodily gestures (in yoga).

 

Type Photography
https://www.visualnews.com/2013/03/08/architecture-b-c-a-photographic-alphabet/

picture5

Peter Defty produced amazing typography through the framing and composition of architecture in his photographs

 (Yes this was introduced to the class in my group’s presentation)

This piece is inspiring to me as it made me realise that alternatively to creating new fonts, we can make fonts out of already present things, and in Peter’s case, architechture. He makes use of negative space to create alphabets, opening many of our eyes to appreciate things in another way now 🙂