For our first creative project, students select personal or public themes to express through experimental typography. They follow this up by exploring the relationship of context and point of contact to message by placing their experimental typography in various environments, formats or media. This project has tight deadlines.
Nimi Einstein
Inpsired by her PSU Art History course on the Spanish Empire, Charlie typeset and animated the words: IMPERIUM, RULE, AUTHORITY, COMMAND. Charlie wrote she “liked the idea of building something that seems sturdy but is actually very fragile, and subject to changes in environment. Imperium is the concept of creating an empire of many parts, but unified. I wanted to express movement in the building of the pieces, so it looks like they’re in a state of flux. I wanted it to be neat and tidy, and to appear strong. But there isn’t any reinforcement because the letters are made of thin sheets and don’t appear to be propped up. Because of this, they’re vulnerable (like an empire) to sudden change.”
For the second half of the project (Take It Further) Charlie animated all of here type experiments. These are amazing are animated!
Typography Poems from Cindy Sullivan on Vimeo. (Hand lettering process below)
Cindy Sullivan’s hand lettering.
Cindy Sullivan process and inspiration for the hand lettered and painted piece below.
Cindy Sullivan
Lizzy Thompson’ explorations find inspiration in Debbie Harry’s music.
Melinda Haines:
Chris Lopez shared a lot of his process over the term... sharing what her learned about photoshop and photography... he also show the photogrpahy, did the handlettering, and the screenprinting, extending this first set of experiments into a term-long project.
Corbin LaMont:
Bryony Redhead took one of Saroyan’s most famous poems lighght; simply the unconventionally spelled word “lighght” in the center of a blank page. “Lighght” is something you see rather than read. Bryony took this lovely piece of minimalist poetry and reinterpreted it, putting her own twist on poem / type as image…
Michelle Leigh. Daisies (Czech: Sedmikrásky) is a 1966 Czechoslovak comedy-drama film written and directed by Věra Chytilová considered a milestone of the Nová Vlna movement. Made with the support of the state-sponsored film studio, it follows two teenage girls, both named Marie, played by Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová, who engage in strange pranks.
Michelle Leigh took her type explorations and created a booklet, posters and information about the film and its director.
Very large scale painted signs by Alan Hernandez-Aguilar. Below is the projection box he built in his living room to get the letters big, big, big.
Above signs by Alan Hernandez-Aguilar.
Cheree A.
Philip Nguyen exlored a large range of ways to talk about cons of gambling.
Philip Nguyen
Chaylee Brown celebrated 80’s slang.
Chaylee Brown
Regeena Jenkins explored hand lettering, materials and the laser cutter.
Regeen Jenkins explored materials and the laser cutter.
Regeen Jenkins explored paper and wood materials and the laser cutter.
Atiana Kuriyama explored handlettering
Atiana Kuriyama explored handlettering and then final work.
Yumi Takeda explored cut letters.
Jessie Woodcock handcut condensed sans alphabet.
Jessie Woodcock
Michelle Lee
Here are a few of Cassandra Swan’s experiments:
Here are a few 354 experiments with media/materials, language, letterforms…
Collins, Sarah, Type 2 student, Theme: Language / Words
Below Nicole Bittner documents her process (more on our flickr) in developing both large and smaller scale typography using light. She explored a range of ideas from building large-scale letters in her backyard, to smaller illuminated with miniature LED lights in framed pieces.
Lyndsay Freeman’s explorations from pen and marker to digital and time-based:
This post shares the process of developing the work by previous students of this class. Each class of students develops their own criteria for evaluation below is the criteria for Fall 2012 students.
Comments