My junior year of college, I enrolled in the departments Typography class...
This was my first class with this professor, and I had always heard how big of a "jerk" he was from other classmates and older students. I'm not sure how I avoided him this long...
Typography ended up being one of my most favorite classes I took in college...(coming in a close 2nd to astronomy—yes, I LOVED astronomy!)
Our final project in Typography...we drew from "a hat." In this hat has misc. words and objects on a slip of paper. Things such as rubber bands, forks, keys, ect.
I drew 'bubble gum.'
Of course I would. I mean...you can distort and shape rubber bands, forks, keys...they all have some way you can form their shape. But gum...is so...rectangular, and I couldn't think of any thing that would make a person look at a rectangle and know it was gum.
Anyways...my sketches were ridiculous...I wish I could find my sketchbook with them. Haha...ohhhh...dear. I think at one point I wanted to scan chewed gum. I'm sure the lab monitors (and my professor, who basically ran the design lab) would have really appreciated that!
Finally, I looked to my prof for advice. He hinted at really considering the font for my subject matter.
Well, duh! Font/type is typography...which is what class this project is in.................
Finally, I came up with a project and vision in my head. It turned out pretty well, and my professor really enjoyed it!
*I did research on "bubbly" fonts and found one I was please with. I wish I could remember its name...
I made a booklet with each letter of "bubble gum" on each right hand page with a fact about gum that I found. The letters were all sized to be, somewhat, abstract on the "bubble gum pink" layout, and the facts on the left hand page.
No comments:
Post a Comment