What
I thought about when approaching my designs and processes:
At first I wasn’t really sure where to go with
my designs, as the word dissect was a bit confusing and it was hard to think of
ideas that would work when hand rendered and in black and white. I decided to
look up the word in the dictionary and thesaurus for synonyms etc, which gave
me the idea of working with the structure of typography and the anatomy of the
human body. I also researched into illustrations from Gray’s Anatomy and I
looked for previous typefaces that were created with a similar concept to mine.
What
worked?
I think that quite a few of my final pieces
worked quite well, some stronger than others. The concept of the anatomy of
typography behind my designs was a strong idea and gave me quite a lot to work
with. I really enjoy working with different media, but decided to limit myself
to different types of ink and pencil. I think the use of biro and fine liner
helped create strong and detailed images, and using pencil to sketch out
certain proposals helped make the final results more accurate. I think the
letter T and H worked the best out of my designs, as I paid more attention to
those letters, because the ideas for them were hard to get around. I also think
they worked really well, because of the 3 dimensional look to them, which made
them look like an object that could be dissected.
What
didn’t work?
I think some of my ideas for my letterforms
failed to work properly. This may have been because I didn’t trace over any
real typefaces and drew everything freehand (my drawing skills aren’t really as
accurate so some of the letters looked pretty poor) but it could have also been
due to a terrible idea that I couldn’t convey! I think my worst two letters
were the R (which I didn’t like because it didn’t really represent dissect and
seemed rushed) and the I (which for me was a bit too cheesy and not really that
well thought out).
How
was the crit?
For
the crit everyone got into 3 groups and presented their ideas to each other in
their groups. The groups then chose 5 of the strongest images of every
designer’s typefaces and we then stuck these onto the wall and moved over onto
another table to look at other typefaces that were classed as the strongest
ones from another group. We were then told to single out the best 5 from all
the letters on the wall, which we had to explain our reason for choice to the
rest of the class. After this we were given some time to single out the single
best typeface created.
I think the way we went about criticizing the
work was good, because no one was singled out and told that their work was
really bad. I really enjoy having my work criticized and always love to find
out what other people think are my strong ideas. I think it was quite a good
idea to choose the strongest letterforms as it was a bit of an ego boost for
those chosen and helps you know whether your ideas are actually conveying the
right message or not. My letter H was picked for one of the top 5 of our group
and then chosen as the best design overall, which I’m really pleased with, even
though I felt like there were typefaces in my group that were much stronger in
quality and concept than mine was! I really enjoyed taking part in the
discussions of other people’s work in my group as it helps you to understand
each other’s thoughts and intentions, and everyone always has a completely
different opinion on each other’s work!
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