ABRAM GAMES

Born Abraham Games in Whitechapel, London on July 29th, the day after World War I began in 1914, he was the son of Joseph Games.

During World War II, Games’s service as the Official War Artist for posters resulted in 100 or so posters. His work is recognized for its “striking color, bold graphic ideas, and beautifull integrated typography”.

Through out his career. abram mainly worked with air brush, and only used a vlimited number of colours which made his work unique and stood out from the rest.I really like his work, especially the ww2 posters.

FESTIVAL STAR ATS GIRLS

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EXPERIMENTATION

After looking through games’ work. I though that the ATS recruitment poster and the festivel of Bitain poster are by far the most interesting.Thought the colours where great, even though they’re simple. they do seem to work.Really like the stencily type that was used within the work. After looking at his work. I decicded that I should experiment with type, having being influenced by the work of Games. here is one experiment which I’ve done using a combination of the two posters to create letters.

BAUHAUS: ALFRED ARNDT

After looking through the Bauhaus movement and flicking through the pages of one of the most interesting Bauhuas book.I came across an artist called Alfred Arndt.

Arndt is an architect, who through out his career designed many things for the bauhaus school of architecture.He also designed furniture and mostly chairs, which the Bauhaus is most famous for.

When i looked at this chair designs, i saw an element of type in there. I came up with an idea of creating type using the shapes of the chairs and the firniture.

BAUHAUS: FERNAND LEGAR Another artist which I found on the Bauhaus book was Fernand Legar.Leger is a cubist but hes also part of the Bauhaus.

Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of Cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of Pop art.

this is one of his work which i thought is really intereasting. i took a closer look at this work and i couldd see some letter form within the work.

using a tracing a paper. I drew over the shapes which I thought would be potential letters. i kept the shading, because I wanted to keep its originallity. I traced the letters E, D, H, and C

BAUHAUS: OSCAR SHLEMMER

Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923 he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working some time at the workshop of sculpture. His most famous work is “Triadisches Ballett”. His work mainlt involves costume designs and sculpture, but there was a painting which he did that I really liked and had potential to make letters out of

PAUL ELLIMEN

Paul Elliman is an artist and designer based in London. His work combines an interest in typography and the human voice, often referring to forms of audio signage that mediate a relationship between both. His typeface Found Fount (aka Bits) is an ongoing collection of found ‘typography’ drawn from objects and industrial debris in which no letter-form is repeated.

Mr. Elliman is a London-based designer. His work explores the mutual impact of technology and language in ways that combine research and historical scholarship with a range of resources from typography to the human voice.

Hes type is hardly manipulated, hardly changed, purely the way it was found, and yet looks really professional. really love this theme and idea of creating type. Its a very unique way of creating things in the graphic design industry.

After looking at Paul Elliman’s work. I decided to do a few experimentations. I went around the university studio and looked for everyday life objects. I managed to find a scraper, a mouse, a battery, a clock, and a brush.

I decided to use these objects to create letters. I used the techniques and processes as Paul Elliman did on his work, which involves collecting the parts, photographing the objects, and finally making them into clean vectors.

NATSUKI OTANI

EMMAFound this really ispiring piece of design work in a book that I was looking at called “ handmade type”.The artist that done this is called Emma. Emma is not a well known artist, as I tried looking her up the internet, but only found a few links and contact details. Emma appears to be an all rounder graphic designer.This piece of design is really clever, emma used the negative space around the letters and stitched around the outlines of the letters. I think am going to do an experiment on stitching, but this type of stitching take up a lot of time and it looks a bit hard to do.

started of with one letter (h) just to see how it turns out. it worked really well, because it was straight forward and it didnt have any curves. my next challenge was to try and stitch a word. this time I’ve gone for the word “typo”, as I wanted to give myself a bit of task. the word “typo” had a number of curves.the curves take up twice as much time and twice as much stitching, the technique of stitching the curves was quite dificult to master, but at the end, Iam happy with the results

MONDRIAAN

This experiment was entirely ispired by the painting done by Mondrian.these letters relate more to cubism as they are mainly contructed from squares and contain sharp edges. this type design demonstrate that I’am capable of designing type with colour and in this situation, type made from coloured squares inspired by Mondrian’s painting.

MICHAEL CRAIG MARTIN

Michael Craig-Martin is a contemporary conceptual artist and painter. He is noted for his fostering of the Young British Artists, many of whom he taught, and for his conceptual artwork, An Oak Tree. He is Emeritus Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths.I find the line drawing of the objects really simple but really effective.there is a high use of strong colours which means it will be hard to maintain a balance but craig martin seems to have the ability to do so.his work looks as if its still life drawing in a contemporary way.

THOMAS C. FEDRO

FURTHER RESEARCH

Further to my research on Paul Elliman. I wanted rto base my type on parts wether objects from daily life or michanical parts. while researching, I stumblled upon this project done by a group of artists from Spain. Their project was collecting parts of abandoned bicycles from around the world, then cleaning them and then turning them into letters.This project starts with an own collection of photos our team has shooted all over the world. Pictures of abandoned corpses bikes.

Typographic research project mounted with pieces of bikes. The goal is to create an alphabet, build words and compose posters with images of bike corpses, a collection of photographs of several abandoned bicycles around the world. Also making some type forms with them to compose an entire alphabet, adding some vector graphics to build fonts mixing photos and color elements.

DEVELOPMENT

This is a full typeface made using different images of different weapons and ammunition used by countries around the world.to create this. I used the software photoshop. it is time consuming, as i placed more then 1000 objects to create the full typeface. As it is rifght now, it wont work, because at the moment. The typeface is made out of real life photos and as a result, you can not use it as a font. My next step would to turn it into a vector, and experiment with it, and try add colour to it and see if colour works with this font.

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I have tested the typeface in many different colours and made it into a word. the relation between letters seems to work just fine. Making ther letters into vectors has taken away a bit of detail from the parts.

Overall the type seems to work fine, but I feel that I need to explore a bit more and think a bit deeper into the theme and try use my own images of parts rarther then found.

My partime job is been an officer cadet in the British army. Iam thinking of asking people in command in the barracks that I work if i could use the weapons that we train with, strip them down, assemble them into letters, then photograph them,

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SA80AGENERAL PURPOSE MACHINE GUN (GPMG)

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Using illustrator to vector my letters has resulted in a much better typeface. As you can see, the type looks more professional and the details are there. my next step is to finish the whole alphabet and test the alphabet to see if it works with colour and to see if it works when making it into words

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This is my chosen name for my type. I chose this name becvause I thought it would be most suitable and the name ‘Arsenal” represents weapon.