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MAX BILL

Max Bill was a swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer. Max Bills is all about different shapes, sizes and tons of different colours, bright to dark. For me his work gives me a very positive vibe when looking at it, even with the darker colours because the lighters ones just bounce off it and contrast really well. Shape wise it looks like he has used very simple sqaures and

triangles overall look amazing together.

STEVEN BONNER

Steven Bonner is a respected creative who is as well known for his design and art direction sensibilities as he is for his illustrative and lettering skills. Working independently from his studio just outside Stir-ling in Scotland, he has gained a reputation for high quality, creative and reliable work across a variety

of sectors. Steven Bonner is a artist i like very much, because of the the detail he puts into the letters as you can see. The black and white outcome I like very much and lets the letter it self stand out and gives it a bold look to it, and the colour one looks amazing too, steven

bonner is artist i like very much, I would like to use him further in my project.

JONATHAN BARNBROOK

Jonathan Barnbrook is a British Graph-ic Designer, Film Maker and Typogra-pher. The fonts Jonathan Barnbrook has created are amazing and i do like all of them, but the one that sticks out to me is the one on the left, because its so sim-ple and effective and hows its a contin-uous line is great with taking the pen off the paper. So in my book I have done a

similar font in my own way.

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a american artist. He be-gan as an obscure graffiti artist in new york in the late 1970s and evolved into an acclaimed neo-expres-sionist and primitivist painter by the 1980s. His work is very different to the other artist that i have picked, in his work it doesn’t seem like he had a technique, just went with the flow. The tools that may have been used would have been paint, pastels different types of brushes maybe different pens and pencils so pretty

much everything.

ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Roy Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop art-ist. During the 1960s, his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James rosenquist and others. Roy Lichtenstein favouring the old fashioned comic strip as subject matter. This is why i have picked Roy Lichtenstein as an artist because of the comic style work he did, with all the type he has used, like ‘pop’!

‘brat!’ will be good for my work.

ANDY WARHOL

Andy Warhol was a leading figure in the visual movement Pop Art. His work explored the relationship between ar-tistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. Andy Warhol is a artist i like very much, not because the type he uses but the colours he has used in all of his pieces which are bright, bold and stand out from the crowd, and i will be doing a influenced piece on one of Andy Warhols work, but focusing more on the

typeface side of it.

GIACOMO BALLA

Giacomo Balla was a Italian painter. Giacomo Balla works is very strong and sharp in my view. Its strong because of the bold colours he has used and heavy brush strokes and its sharp because of the very pointy edges in all of his piec-es. Personally i think making a font out of his work will be

really good and there will be a lot to work with.

CRAIG WARD

Craig Ward is a British Designer and art director currently based in new york, known primarily for his pioneering and experimental typographic work. Craig Ward is a artist i like very much and will be doing a artist inspired piece in my sketch book. The reason i have picked his work is because as well as looking neat there always is a bit of a messy side to it which i like very much. The fonts he used are very simple and forward, eye catching, and that is what i want to put into my font and make it look as good as his.

OWN DESIGNS

This is a piece i have done from the inspiration of Andy War-hol, which you could probably tell straight away from the way it ha been set out. The idea behind it was to have some influ-ence from Andy Warhol but not a lot, so kept it the same by having a big square cut into four and put a letter in each one. I did this type of font in this piece because it had a pop art feel to it and just seemed to fit the hole outcome of this sample, and stood out to as a Andy Warhol piece would,so happy with

final turnout.

Here is a piece on Jonathan Barnbrook I did. It a very simple piece I have done in his style. This I liked very much, because it was a continuous line font which i hav-en’t seen much of, so I liked the idea of it and ending up doing one. Even though I do like the idea of a continuous line font don’t think I will be taking it further to develop

in my project.

Another pop art artist is Roy Lichtenstein that i’ve been working on. I would say Roy Lichtentein has more ex-plosive work and style, and I would love to add that into my work. On the left I just done a tiny sample of his work, using different media such as different coloured cards and trying to work the way he would. Personally I think using the different coloured cards was a good idea it gave the piece a much brighter and bold look than a felt pen would have done, so overall i am happy with it.

This is a font i like very much, in inspiration of Criag Ward. It simple and bold and stands out wouldn’t say a much as the pop art fonts but stands out more than the fonts i have done in black maker. As you can see in the letter-ing i have left some gaps which i think look good and different other fonts and would be a change from all the letters being joined to-

gether, so giving it a different outcome.

Above a inspired piece i have done from Max Bill. Most of the work he does has got a lot to do with shapes and bold colours. So I thought looking at his work i could make a font from it a you can see, just using colour card again but cutting out shape from it and making letters. The line i have done in the middle of each letter may seem pointless,but in Max Bills work on one piece he has used a lot of line so us-ing the lines I thought I could give the text a bit of a 3D look

to it, the turn I am happy with.

On top is one of my more detailed piece, the artist behind this one is Steven Bon-ner. Looking at his work when he does a letter there’s always an amazing design designed into it. So taking that idea I just made a simple font and added my own design into the lettering, just simple line, shapes. Dots and some shading, the out-

come is very positive.

Down below is another artist inspired piece of work, but this one out of all of them I don’t like very much. For me it is very slack and dull and would not be good enough to take forward and develop it in my project, so this type will be

taken further.

At the bottom of this page is my final artist inspira-tion, the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. When I look at his work, to me it looks very free and enjoys doing it. So for my to try get into his frame of mind i used different colour acrylic paints, water colour, pens, pencil and pastels. As doing this felt very free, over-all I got I wanted to do on this sample and will think

about taking it forward to develop.

Three Artist

ARTIST ONE ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Here is one of the three artist that I will be bring-ing forward in my project which I did in my sketch book and scanned in. As you can see this is Roy Lichtenstein. On this page firstly I have done original roy lichtenstein piece with the word “pow” to create this simply I used different colour papers and a black marker which worked effec-tively and was very impressed with. Just below it is the font I have created from scratch the font is trying to in keep with the bubble pop art sort of font but not trying to copy it overall, but a few minor changes will be made to make it a better font and not exactly like the roy lichtenstein font. But for I will be taking this font futher to develop as my final. Right at the bottom of the page is just a little sample of how the font I created will look with the name “lichtenstein” spelt out overall it does look good and stand out to me very well and

very impressed with it.

ARTIST TWO JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

This the second artist, Jean Michel - Basquiat again this was done in my book and all of it was scanned in. The reason he was one of the three artist was because of the energy and creativity that he puts into his art pieces as you can see on the left hand side, where I have a sample of it, which has turned out really good. Below is the font i have created and honestly its not the best and its not really representing Jean Michel - Masquiats work and seems a bit tight and doesn’t look loose or free overall I am not impressed with it and will be changing it later on, to get a better font out of it. At the bottom again using the font I have spelled his name out, the name does look a tiny bit

better, but still will be improved.

ARTIST THREE CRAIG WARD

This is the third and final artist that I have picked out of the other eight, and this is Craig Ward. To me his work looked bold, simple and effective, just few of the reasons I picked him. Again same as the others, I’ve done a sample of his work, the whole alphabet and his last name using the font i created. To create the sample I did was to write “ink and water don’t mix” go over the edges in fine liner and then use my in to get the effect Craig Ward got on his, and it turned out pretty well. The idea of the font came from just looking at the sample I did, ad picking the straight edges out from it, also some edges were thin and thick, so that’s why I decided to make my font look like that as you can see at the top, personally I think using the thin and thick lines to create the font was a good idea and worked well, but I don’t think it was good enough to compete with the

roy lichenstein font I did at the start.

ALL THREE FONTSOn this page are all of the three fonts that i have created using adobe illustrator. The first font is the Jean Michel Basquiat one, as you can see her that i have changed the hole things from the first attepmted that i did which i was not hapy with at all, this on fits his style of work much better its simple and its effetive. But for me i wont be using this as my final picec be-cause compared to the other two fonts i have done it not as strong as them and not as bold as them, but its a bigger improvement to the

earlier font i did realted to this artist.

Here is the second font I crated using illustra-tor. This font is related to Craig Ward , like I said earlier to make the font I used thin and thick likes, because looking at craig wards work most of them were using straight, think and thick lines, so as you can on the left the bold lines you can make out but thin likes you can but not that much. On the other hand i wont be using this as my final font because it is better than the Jean Michel Basquits font, but I still think it wouldn’t be enough to stand out

and make an impact or so.

This is my final and third font that I created, this one is inspired by Roy Lichtenstein. This is my best and the one that I am going to be using for my final piece. The reason I have choose this on is because, its good to look at, bold, stands out and when making a word out of it, its got like building sort of look to it, like a block of buildings, even though I do like the other to fonts I have done this font has got much more than the other two has a different dimension to it and has the 3d effect to it as well. So this is the font that I am going to using

for my final piece.

CHOSEN FONT - ROY LICHTENSTEIN FONT

Finally this is my chosen and final font. All of this has been done on illustrator, creating the page I made in my sketch book and doing everything on illustrator. On the right hand side is the ‘pow” I did in my book and now converted into reformed version on the computer, and below is the roy li-chtenstein name with using my font and personally i think has gone well. Also I have made a few changes to my font be changing the “C’ and “S’ in my alphabet, the reason be-hind that is because the old “C” and “S” wont fitting in with the other letters and just looked out of place, so decided to change them and the letters fit much more better and look better too. Overall i am very happy with the outcome of my

font.

Here are my fonts as you can see one has been don’t in black and white and another has been done in colour. The reason I have picked this particular colour is because its not bright and not too dull, and like fits good with the pop art theme that I have been going with for this font, personally I like how the colour

one has turned out, both look very good.

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This is a typeface i have created, the in-spiration came from the artist Roy Lichten-stein, i have created

aspects of his work.

On this page is the advertisement I created for my font. Basically for the advertisement, for the background I have give it a dotted one keeping in theme with the pop art theme, and the ‘pow’ art work I did also inserting that into it, and the hand punching a building, reasons for the building is, because the font I have created has a building sort of feel to it, when the words are put together, with the big and the small differ-ent sized letters, which goes well together. Also putting my the whole alphabet on the advertise-ment with the colour and the black and white one. Overall the advertisement I have crated has a great look and feel to it and I am very pleased with it, because of how everything has fitted all

together.

This is a typeface i have created, the in-spiration came from the artist Roy Lichten-stein, i have created

aspects of his work.