Experiments

ICONS!

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I have done some research into the theory of relativity to see if I could get my head around it and hoping it would make this project a little easier if I actually had the knowledge of the actual science. Unfortunately, science is not my strong point. However, I found a website that told us some ways you can see the theory of relativity in real life. – http://www.livescience.com/48922-theory-of-relativity-in-real-life.html. This gave me a great idea for my online desktop prototype and I got to work at creating some icons and graphics. I wanted to stick to  simple black and white colour scheme for the icons however for my infographics I want to use bright and bold colours to make them stand out and look interesting to my audience.

Nuclear Plant Icon

 

Gold Icon

 

Einstein

Development of New Font.

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I took the new font I made and applied it to ‘Costa Coffee’ instead of using a different font for the word ‘coffee’ I made sure I used lower case letters for this. By doing so, I feel like it makes my font a lot more consistent and looks a lot more visually pleasing than my previous one.

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I drew this out on graph paper, I then scanned this into my computer and edited it with the curvature tool to make it look neater and make the lines stand out.

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I am going to further this by creating it into a stencil.

Development.

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After this weeks workshop and group review, I have hit a brick wall with my idea and design. I feel like my final font idea isn’t original and also feel like I need to develop it more, and add lower case letters. I’ve been feeling unconfident with my designs and initial idea on my font, so I went back into looking at influences and other ways I could incorporate coffee into my designs. I started recreating my letter forms, making lines thinner and using sans serif fonts instead of serif. This is what I came up with.

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DEVELOPMENT VIA PHOTOSHOP

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I have taken the final font I have decided on and scanned it into photoshop to experiment with the stencil style.

 

 

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First I used a picture of coffee beans as the background, however I don’t feel as this works well and doesn’t look that visually appealing. I then changed it to a picture of coffee powder.

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I prefer this a lot more than the coffee beans. I especially like the difference in texture in the ‘C’ to the rest of the letter forms. I plan on creating a physical form of this design using real coffee powder and making my own stencil of the font I have come up with.

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT WITH FONT

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I feel that its time to get a final design or idea for my font. I started drawing a serif font as I felt I was sketching mostly sans serif designs. However I thought id subtly twist it and add a more curved effect to it. I wanted to do this because I thought it added a more creative feel to it, instead of dull straight lines.

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I feel like there is potential in this type and I really liked the curviness contrasting with the straight lines. I felt I needed to keep the ‘A’ straight as capital ‘A’s’ work a lot better with a point. I also needed to widen the ‘T’ as it looked very submissive next to the other typefaces.

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I plan on expanding this style further, and potentially add a stencil effect. I plan on keeping the style of ‘coffee’ to keep the sophisticated feel to it.