Designs with Glyphs
Designs made with letters and numbers. Left designed with Neue Haas Grotesk Display Pro. Right designed with Stempel Garamond LT Std.
This assignment was to create two designs, one using the San-serif font Neue Haas Grotesk Display Pro and the second one using the serif font Stempel Garamond LT Std. The parameters of the design were to be 6.75 x 8 inches in size. Each design needed to have five to eight different and unique glyphs, only containing letters and numbers. There needed to be at least five different typographic anatomy like, a stem, counter space, spine, bowl, and ascender, descender, loop, arm, crossbar. The designs could only be in black and white, no outlines could be used for the glyphs. Each design also needed to have at least two black and two white glyphs. The designs needed to be abstract and follow design theory.
San-Serif Design
San-serif font Neue Haas Grotesk Display Pro design. In this design the letters k, e, c A, L, j, m, and B were used. This design created many different sizes of triangles in the negative space with the different glyphs. The anatomy that really stands out in this design is the crossbar of the A, a stem of the k, descender of the j, counters in the e and c, and the bowls in the B.
Serif Design
Serif font Stempel Garmond LT Std design. This design has used the glyphs 8, K, j, i, m, L, E, and S. The use of the circles in the tittle of the j and i, plus the circles in the 8 and the counters in the S were used to create a movement and abstract triangles in the design. he anatomy that really stands out in this design is the descender in the j, a stroke in the S and 8, the stem in the K and E, the leg in the K, and the bowls in the 8.
The Process and inspiration
I started this assignment off with sketches of letters. Most of the inspiration to my designs have meaning to them. Most of the letters are initials to either my children's names, husband, myself, parents, etc. The numbers are significate to me because I have always thought of my family in 2, 3, 6, 7, and 8. My husband and I are two, with my oldest we became three, then we had six children, I grew up with seven children, and there are eight of us with my children and husband.
The digital sketches came next, and from those six I had my husband and a few children talk about what they liked of each. Then after listening to the critique of my teacher, it became obvious that sketch one and four needed to be developed into the final compositions.
Then I took the two digital sketches and did 12 variations of each design, from those the final compositions were chosen.
