Wednesday, 6 November 2019

Eureka Moment: Creating my own Type

 


I crated my own type for the Dracula briefing and really surprised myself with how I approached it and the success from the approach I used. I can no longer use the graph and square papers that were provided and I started to panic in the studio when everyone else was approaching the problem this way. The way my practice was in the past, I would have let the graph paper and the need to be meticulous consume me and I would have been stuck down the hole for some time trying to create the most perfect set of type.

I no longer work in this way and I had to start thinking of how I would approach things now, as a bling practitioner. Well... I use my hands for everything. To feel surfaces to guide me, to read Braille... why not use my hands now? I have been getting my nails professionally done for the past few months and had almond shaped claws too!

Literally tracing around my fingers in different angles positions to create the letter I needed created this rather archaic aesthetic, alluding to the fact Dracula is an ancient being.


I scanned in the "off cuts" of paper, or the negative space, of my letters which creates an interesting language of shapes. A new visual language. I filled this with my photography from the graveyard behind Leeds University and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Keep pushing a simple idea forward! What now? How can I use this in my screen prints?

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