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Alphabet Design- Sandra Albertson
Inspiration for my typeface comes from a story called, “The Star Thrower” where one small man makes a big difference. The story takes place on a beach and has a very heartwarming message so I want to use a typeface … Continue reading
Alphabet Design – Evan Matthews
My text is from a CNN article about Elon Musk and his privatizing of rockets and building it into an industry since NASA stopped the production of space shuttles. Elon musk is an engineer and has created Tesla, electric cars. … Continue reading
Alphabet Design – Lisa Gaviglio
I am creating a modular font that will be in all capitals. The goal of this font is to combined modern and old style text to bring alive an old romanticized view of adventure. My text is from a Sherlock … Continue reading
Alphabet Design – Amy Koller
To be honest, I’m not completely sure what I want to do for my alphabet yet. However, I decided to try out at least one design for the time being. For my text I wanted to use a Christmas song. … Continue reading
Alphabet Design – Danielle Clement
For my alphabet design, I wanted to create something that was simple, yet still had character. The rules I set for my design are 1. the letters will all be in a serif typeface, 2. each letter must have 2 … Continue reading
Alphabet Design – Kelsey Johnson
The text I chose to inspire my alphabet’s design is a paragraph from the novel The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel is set in New York in the 1920’s, and the passage is describing a night scene in … Continue reading
Alphabet Design – Hannah Croskrey
My alphabet design follows a materials-based method as well as a modular method. I am using thread wrapped around nails that are nailed into a board. The nails are in a sort of grid that creates the modular part of … Continue reading
Typeface Anatomy – Lauren Turner
This is the one of the movie posters from the movie the Great Gatsby. I saw that another student used a different poster from the same movie/book to talk about but I chose to still use this typeface as an … Continue reading
Typeface Anatomy – Brian Tomsovic
If you look at the poster for 127 Hours, the font choice may not be the most visually exciting thing to have ever been done with type on a movie poster, however browsing through several I found that it was … Continue reading
Typeface Anatomy- Jenna Hayden
In this movie poster the The Godfather Part II, the text is center aligned on the top of the poster making its way down the page into the middle of the poster. The yellow typeface is important to the poster … Continue reading