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Initial research and sample experiments: Peter Halley

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“Peter Halley was born in New York City. He received his BA from Yale University and his MFA from the Uni-versity of New Orleans in 1978, remaining in New Orleans until 1980. Since 1980, Halley has lived and

worked in New York.For over twenty-five years, Peter geometric paintings have been engaged in a play of relationships between what he calls “prisons” and “cells” – icons that re-flect the increasing geometricization of social space in the world in which we live.” (http://www.peterhal-

ley.com/)

Initial research and sample experiments: Peter Halley

To understand how Halley works so I can form an accurate font I transcribed and experimented in his style. I initially used crayons and felt tips to create squares and rectangles in a layered format. These didn’t look very good or accurate as they weren’t as square and geometric as Halleys. So after speaking

to a tutor I decided to experiment with papers by cutting out squares and rectangles and layering them on top of each other. They aren’t as good as I would like be-cause I didn’t have access to a guillotine and I can’t cut straight lines with scissors! Although I do think they are quite effective and do represent Halleys

work quite well.

Initial research and sample experiments: Peter Halley

After transcribing his work and understanding how his art work is formed I then experimented and tran-

scribed it to the first 3 letters of the alphabet. I experimented with different formations of squares, rectangles and lines. I also experimented by merging squares together. After doing this with pen and paper I then created them in illustrator. I used the pen tool to roughly trace the outlines I drew. They look very abstract and I feel they represent Halley quite well.

Initial research and sample experiments: Roy Lichtenstein

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Litchenstein is a highly influential American pop art-ist. He was a leading figure in the new art movement and his work defined pop art. Many of his work is de-signed in an old fashioned comic strip style and he is famous for his varying thickness black lines and bold, bright dots. One of his most famous and memorable

works of art is his Whaam print from 1963.

Initial research and sample experiments: Roy Lichtenstein

These are some basic experiments I created to tran-scribe his work. I took basic objects from around my room and drew them. I them outlined them with fine liner and used thicker lines for the shadows. I also used block black areas to create shadows and creas-es. I then added the dot pattern to the main parts of the item, then block coloured some other features to add depth. I think these are very effective and you can

tell who I have been inspired by.

Initial research and sample experiments: Roy LichtensteinI experimented in the style of Lichtenstein to create lettering. I first made block letters and then exper-imented with dots to create outlines. The dots look quite effective but aren’t very bold so wouldn’t work well as a font. To get the below font I hand drew a Lichtenstein style font, similar to that on the left. I

then drew out the letters in illustrator as shownbelow.

Initial research and sample experiments: Mondrian

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Upon recieveing and reading this brief I immediatley thought of Mondrian. I’ve always loved his work and his style. I’m not a big fan of abstract art, but mondri-ans, is work i’ve always liked looking at and can appre-ciate. So I knew I had to experiment and try and make a font based on his style. His work consists of block colours of red, yellow, blue and black. He uses black lines arranged in a geometric grid. His work is very

bold and really stands out.

Initial research and sample experiments: Mondrian

To the left are my experiments in Mondrians style. At the top I created Mondrian style images. Top left I used felt tips, fine liners and pencil crayons to ex-periment in Mondrian style. I found felt tip was the most effective, but I didn’t have a yellow pen, so had to improvise and use orange, it still looks effective though. I then created vector experiments in Illus-trator, these are very effective and bold. The lines really draw you in. I then tried transcribing it to a font. Initially I didn’t quite understand the brief, and just drew a generic font and filled it with a Mondri-an pattern, after re-reading and understanding the brief I created experiments where they looked more like Mondrian where the straight lines and boxes made the font. I then traced these with the pen tool to get the experiments on the bottom. They look re-ally funky, But I don’t feel they are my strongest ex-periments.

Initial research and sample experiments: Richard Hamilton

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Hamilton was a British painter and collage artist. His art is very abstract and sometimes I feel comes across quite humourous. He has been describes ad the found-er of Pop Art, something he did not like. His work is very interesting and it shows lots of layering and

thought.

Initial research and sample experiments: Richard Hamilton

These are my intiial experiments in Hamiltons style I drew thiings I found in my room. I then traced where the shadows would be using inks and water to spread the ink and thin it out. These look really effective and

I feel represent Hamiltons style well.

Initial research and sample experiments: Richard Hamilton

The Top experiment on the right was created using fine liners, ink and a fine paint brush. The top full al-phabet I created by writing the alphabet in full with a pencil then shadowing the main parts of the type-face with fine liner. I then experimented with inks and wrote out the alphabet with ink as the image i was in-spired by looks like it had been created with ink. I also used fine liners at the bottom with ‘ABC’ and added

water to merge the ink from the fineliner.

The three experiments on the bottom right I did in il-lustrator. I scanned the above image in and traced it using the pen tool and created a vector. The top im-age I traced using a single brush stroke and altered the stroke so it gets thinner at the ends. This makes it look quite oriental and as though it’s been done us-ing a brush, For the other 2 I traced around the out-lines and filled it black, and left 1 with an outline. I think these are quite effective and look quite funky. Although I am not sure if they truely represent Hamil-

tons work.

Initial research and sample experiments: Wassily Kandinsky

As with Mondrian, Kandinsky is another of my favourite artist and one I know I had to incorporate in this pro-ject. His work is very abstract but I find it exteremely interesting the way all the shapes and lines intereact. The colours are very interesting and bold. He uses straight lines to make geometric shapes and grids. He also uses circles and triangles. The contrast of sharp lines and triangle corners against the curved lines and circles is really interesting. Kandinsky was a Russian painter and theorist. He also taught ar the

Bauhaus school of art and architecture.

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Initial research and sample experiments: Wassily Kandinksy

These are some experiments I did in Kandinsky’s style. I really like these experiments as they really show Kandinsky’s style. I’m not a painter, so I’m quite proud of these as they look really abstract and funky. For the bottom image I used inks to create the shapes and lines. I then added fine liner to make the main lines and shapes stand out. I then added white correction fluid to add highlights and a bit of depth. The image on the left was created with acrylic paints. I also used fine

liner and correction fluid to add depth.

Initial research and sample experiments: Wassily Kandinksy

Here are some experiments where I transcribed Kand-insky’s work into a font. I looked at the primary shapes he uses and used them to create letters. He uses a lot of traingles, and when you look at the letter A it is triangular, therefore it made sense to use a triangle for the letter A. I then used other shapes to form let-ters. I also used paint to create shapes and letters.

Initial research and sample experiments: Wassily Kandinsky

I continued to transcribe his work into a typeface in my skethcbook. I created a rough alphabet as shown on the right. I then vectorised some of the basic let-ters I created on the last page. These are really ef-

fective and bold.

Initial research and sample experiments: Bridget Riley

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Bridget Riley is an English painter who’s main practice is OP Art, also known as Optical art. Optical art is the visual art that makes use of optical illusions. The first image of hers I saw was the bottom left image. I found this image and saw lots of abstract interesting shapes in it. Looking at it closely I could see letters

emerging so chose to experiment in her style.

On the right are my experiments in the style of Riley. The top image was created by drawing vertical lines, then adding diagonal lines to create a pattern. I then

coloured it with felt tip.The bottom right transcription of Riley’s work into a type, were created by tracing shapes from Riley’s im-age ‘Auguste’ - shown on the last page at the bottom.

I traced shapes to create letters, which resulted in the experiment to the right.

Initial research and sample experiments: Bridget Riley

Artist Transciptions

Kandinsky

Below is my initial and final Kandinsky font designs. On the left is my initial design where I used the basic shapes Kandinsky uses and formed letters. I then used this typeface to create the work Kandinsky. Having done this I could see certain letters weren’t right and the proportions weren’t correct. So I altered the letters that didn’t work and made them more proportionate, and thus the font on the right was created! I think it is really

effective and works well.

Halley

These are my font designs in the style of Halley. On the left is the first font I created. Again, after putting it into a word some letters didn’t work and some were the wrong proportion. So I aligned and altered them all

and they look much better and proportionate. They also look better in a word.

Lichtenstein

These are my typefaces in the style of lichenstein. I chose to do it in a bold 3d style as i felt this was the best way to link to his work. I obviously added the spots to the middle, as this is Lichtensteins trademark.

Final Halley Font

Bold Coloured

Final Halley Font

Final Halley Font

Bold Coloured Block Colour

Final Halley Font Point Sizes

Advert

Advert

Advert

These are my advert designs. I chose to design them in a Halley style as to tie it in with the Halley font. I used contrasting colours similar to those in Halley’s own

work.

Book Cover

Book Cover

These are my Font Bureau book cover designs. I have experiment-ed with a variety of colours using coulours similar to those used by Halley. I then decided to try it in Black and White. This porved to be very successful and real-ly stand out. I love the abstract pattern the Letter A makes when

stretched across an A3 page.

Final Advert and Book Cover

Webpage