Design Practice

The design i had to create was to communicate the word 'Build' and i decided to go about this by researching how a physical building would start, with blueprints. I did some research into the basics of blueprints. 

After i documented some of the key characteristics of a blueprint i felt confident enough to draw up some initial ideas.

I and drew some of the pieces but i noticed i wasn't getting anywhere close to the neatness of any other blueprints i had seen on the internet. Knowing that this was going to be a lengthy process by hand drawing i moved over to the mac and deigned up the images on illustrator.

This was possibly the best thing i could have done as i knew a good technique for making type look asif it had been created by a scribble. 

By changing the presets of illustrators tool "scribble" i managed to create a perfectly legible interpretation of the letterform. This looked great once the colours had been switched to show white as it gave the piece a real feel of being a blue print. 

I decided to not just leave the piece as type and i created some arrows and angle illustrations to give the piece an even more realistic feel. On top of each document i created a box which included the typeface name and along the bottom i used this space to include abit of information describing a typographic term highlighted in the design.

To finish it off i decided against the white paper or gloss in favour for tracing paper. This was because the tracing paper gave the design a new level of realism. If you hold the design to the window you can see the faint grids behind everything and the white tends to glow up alot more than the blue which appears to get darker.

this is all ten of my letterforms along with a front page for presenting