Victory Cycles Logo design

Type Project Evaluation

Overall i think most of my type project went quite well, i am also very happy with the final outcomes . I looked into and experimented with handmade type, by making the alphabet out of paperclips and with materials such as glue, gouache, bubble wrap, cardboard and a variety of different inks. I enjoyed making the handmade type faces, and live tracing them so they looked a lot cleaner and bolder and it was easier to adjust and edit them. I think any the type faces i made suited the book i chose as they were a selection of Helvetica designs with different adjustments and effects . (Helvetica, Homage to a typeface) For my final mac-made poster, i created a vector based design to make the initial idea. I liked how this turned out and the simplicity of the whole design makes it represent Helvetica and the red top of the "A" repersents Switzerland as it is a Swiss typeface. The part of the project i enjoyed the most was definitely making the final design on the macs, as i feel i am better at this than making handmade outcomes.

Helvetica Reflection

Here is one of my designs that i have worked up. It is a handmade typeface that i have changed the colour of to make it look like a reflection. I have used a wide range of blues to represent the reflection in the water.

Hand made type

Here are a few hand rendered type faces that i have created. I have simply drawn the designs on on paper and then used "live trace" within illustrator to work them up.

Obama Styled Poster

This here is a piece that i have created in the style of the Barack Obama campaign posters. To create this piece i have used Adobe Illustrator as all of this design is vector based. This design is built up of a selection of different layers and i found that it has created a very interesting and unique effect.

Handmade Type (Paperclips)

Here is some photographs of my handmade type, i have used a selection of paper clips to create this unique typeface. I really like this typeface as its very original and i think it could work well for my final poster idea.

Urban Alphabet

Above is my version of "The Urban Alphabet". I have taken all theses photographs in and around Canterbury town center. I have not adjusted any of the letters, so basically what u see is what is out there. I have edited these photographs within Photoshop and simply added a black and white effect to make them stand out and look unique.