Artist Typeface
James Wallis
A RT I S T T Y P E F A C E S TFD1064
WASSILY KANDINSKY Artist Research
Kandinsky was part of the Bauhuas movement, which was an icon movement that has affected the face of design to the present day. Kandinsky has a very distinctive diametric style, he uses shape bold shape and textures to create a intelligent composition. Kandinsky often doesn’t use the full canvas, but uses the negative space to direct your eye to the shape in the center. He uses a broud range of colors, which often get fazed out into the background color.
WASSILY KANDINSKY Experiments
JEAN DUBUFFET
Artist Research
Dubuffet has a distinctive style that looks almost childish. He uses a very simple color scheme with stripes and solid color to create a very abstract composition. He uses mainly blue and red with black to outline the different areas. Even when you look at Dubuffet’s work you can start to see letter forms emerging which could be set for a good typeface.
JEAN DUBUFFET
Experiments
I have tied to create a composition that is in the same style as Dubuffet but originally the lines where all the same weight, I have since changed this so the line weight varies.
CASSANDRE
Artist Research
Cassandre was one of the great poster designers of the 20th Century. He used an Art Deco style which was very fashionable and seen a luxurious. Cassandre was mainly a poster designer but also designed type and he was known to use it in his posters.
CASSANDRE
Experiments
I firstly tried to create the Cassandre style by using the pencil and shading but it didn’t create the shapes edges and flowing shaded areas so I generated some shapes using the mac to create that style. I also stopped tying to find the letters in the work and started creating letters using his style.
CASSANDRE
Experiments
GUSTAV KLIMT
Artist Research
Kimt’s style is very unique as his uses a realistic painting style that you would usually see in a portrait but then overlaps it with a textural fabric pattern. He uses different shades of gold but also put small splashes of color in to balance the painting. The patterns on his paintings don’t follow the usual rigs where the fabrics creased but there all one solid block of pattern.
GUSTAV KLIMT
Experiments
PAUL KLEE
Artist Research
Paul Klee was a key part of the cubism movement, they uses geometric shapes to create unusual compositions. He uses bright colors and angular lines in his paintings.
PAUL KLEE
Experiments
ROY LIEHTENSTEIN
Artist Research
Liehtenstein was a key figure in the pop art movement, there was a lot of artists in the pop art movement but Liehtenstein managed to still create distinctive work. He mostly uses primary colors, which are uses to create cartoon strip like compositions that are dynamic and memorable.
ROY LIEHTENSTEIN
Experiments
ROY LIEHTENSTEIN
Initial Fonts
EBOY - PIXEL ART
Artist Research
Eboy are a group of artists that create pixel art, they use an isometric like grid to create everything on an angle to give a realistic element. The compositions are often of iconic places, cities or fantasy places that are captured using this pixel style.
EBOY - PIXEL ART
Experiments
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI Artist Research
Hokusal was a Japanese artist who is best known for wooden block printing. He uses gentle lines and blocks of color in his work. He has a every limited range of colors, using a lot of blue tones and browns. The compositions he creates often are of scenes with water of volcanoes in them
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI Experiments
LETTER FORMS
Parts of letters
After my research I started to look at the letter forms and what make makes up a letter to make it legible and easy to read. When creating my fonts I will make sure I keep my letter legible. Some parts for the letters are vital for legality, for instance if you took the ear off a lower case ‘r’ then you wouldn’t be able to read it. But also there are things that aren’t so vital like counters which when filled in will change the inner shape of the letter but you would still be able to recognize the outer shape. I will keep all these factors in mind while creating my typefaces.
http://www.csspunch.com/type/parts.html
PAUL KLEE
Fonts
GUSTAV KLIMT
Fonts
CASSANDRE
Fonts
TYPEFACE
Final Development
For my final font I have chosen the typeface I have created for Cassandre’s work. I really like the way there are curves in very letter and although it looks simple, it works well.
I started to play around with the serif on the a but then changed my mind as I thought it looked better this it on.
TYPEFACE
Final Development
I also added serifs to all of the letter to see what they would look like but they didn’t look right on some of the letter like the ‘s’ so I removed them.
As I said earlier in the project, I wanted to play around with the counters and find out whether they stayed legible of not. As you can see they are still readable but as there aren’t that many character that have counters the typeface would look unbalanced and wong.
TYPEFACE
Final Development
I then looked back a the brief we where set and it says that the fonts have to work in both color and black & white, so I added a part of another typeface whereby it uses colors and gradient. So this typeface is a combination of two I create before.
I really liked this one so I tried it in black and white and through it was very successful.
TYPEFACE
Final Color Typeface
TYPEFACE
Final B&W Typeface
TYPEFACE
Font Bureau Website
NEW FONTS
Font Bureau announces the release of Gradient Block by James Wallis
Gradient Block
TYPEFACE
Specime Steet
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Font Bureau Cover
F O N T
B U R E AU
TYPE SPECIMENS
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Typeface Advert
N OTH I N G
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This typeface was inspired by an artist called Cassandre who uses geometric shapes and feathered gradients to create interesting compositions. Gradient Blocks
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This typeface was inspired by an artist called Cassandre who uses geometric shapes and feathered gradients to create interesting compositions. Gradient Blocks
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This typeface was inspired by an artist called Cassandre who uses geometric shapes and feathered gradients to create interesting compositions. Gradient Blocks