Process and Production: Typographic workshop with Nick Deakin
Typographic Posters
Today with Nick Deakin we created posters using type with three fonts, Din, Cooper and...Comic sans. The font I primarily used for this workshop is Din, Din is a Deutsche sans serif font which has a more industrial and severe look to it, this font is typically used for sign work due to it's legibility and how easy it is to reproduce. The reason why I chose this font as my primary font, is because out of the three provided I found it to be the most appealing. I personally prefer sans serif over serif ruling out cooper and comic sans is the spawn of Satan. Below is an example of the din. (din dong! If I say Din again am gonna lose it!)
The task was to create posters using phrases based on star signs, I have reason to believe that these phrases were provided so students weren't spending too much time coming up with cool sentence to work with. I'm personally not a fan of the whole star sign bs and the phrases that apply to everyone not just the people born on a particular month. But as a 'Cancerian' I got the phrase.
'BE ON YOUR GUARD AGAINST SOMEONE WHO SEES YOU COMING'
10/10, outstanding outlook on life, WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN! Man, I just like crabs that's all I take from star signs! (lets take a moment and appreciate attack helicopter crab pilot, Thank you for your service brave trooper on the field.)
OK! So serious talk now, as stated before I used 'Din' as my primary font for this workshop. I cut out all of my letters and aligned them to spell out the phrase. However I chose to change the words 'you' and 'your' to Comic sans to accentuate that the poster is being directed at the reader. The poster gave off a very Grungy cut, stick and photocopy appeal to it and I thought it was pretty cool! Alongside that I felt like I was making a ransom note with pink handled scissors and a prit stick.
As an after note I just wanted to mention thanks to @HudGDA for including my lil stockpile of letters during the session on Instagram.
OK! So serious talk now, as stated before I used 'Din' as my primary font for this workshop. I cut out all of my letters and aligned them to spell out the phrase. However I chose to change the words 'you' and 'your' to Comic sans to accentuate that the poster is being directed at the reader. The poster gave off a very Grungy cut, stick and photocopy appeal to it and I thought it was pretty cool! Alongside that I felt like I was making a ransom note with pink handled scissors and a prit stick.
I created this poster on some A3 card and was only just able to fit everything on the page. I decided to have a left justified alignment to the poster accompanied with an illustration on the right side that I will do post workshop. For the illustration I was thinking of using a ballpoint pen to compliment the whole hand made poster appeal.
The next task was the same as the first but on a bigger scale, as a group we chose the verse of a song out of three provided, individually we worked on a line each each. There was 7 of us so we chose the verse with 7 lines so we each had an equal amount to work with.. not because it was the shortest one. The line I had was 'And there's something going on inside' Like the first one I made Din my primary font and used cooper and comic sans to accentuate 'Something' and 'Inside'. With the addition of some illustrations our masterpiece was complete and mounted on the wall to evaluate.
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