Experiments: Exploding Helvetica
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This blog is an exploration of the interaction of different design disciplines. This ever expanding project is the main study of my MA on Graphic Arts+ Design at Leeds Metropolitan University.
This is an attempt to identify and record the major targets / experiments of this year's study. Research methods, design attempts and ideas, influences and links to other available material will be found here as well as future ideas and thoughts.
This blog should be the starting point of further thinking and exploration. Please feel free to comment and express your opinions on things you like or dislike.
This is an attempt to identify and record the major targets / experiments of this year's study. Research methods, design attempts and ideas, influences and links to other available material will be found here as well as future ideas and thoughts.
This blog should be the starting point of further thinking and exploration. Please feel free to comment and express your opinions on things you like or dislike.
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news
Monday 10 September
..exhibition is up and running
Monday 03 September
..setting up the final exhibition
Saturday 04 August
..experiments on the H Block building
Monday 16 July
..first ideas and thoughts for the Book
Wednesday 11 July
..phase one of screenprinting on the Table
Thursday 05 July
..writting staff and designing the patterns for the Table project
Wednesday 20 June
..screenprinting tests for the Table project
Monday 18 June
..after a weekend in Asteris' workshop, the table is cut and ready
Friday 01 June
..The Table project starts
Wednesday 30 May
..playing around with photos
Thursday 10 May
..detail sketches of Underpass features
Wednesday 09 May
..a new idea for some form of publication on the Underpass design process
Friday 27 April
..concept volume model of the Underpass.
Tuesday 10 April
..massing model of the Underpass and video created.
Monday 09 April
..new layout design for this blog.
Monday 02 April
..The first layout for th Underpass project is issued.
..exhibition is up and running
Monday 03 September
..setting up the final exhibition
Saturday 04 August
..experiments on the H Block building
Monday 16 July
..first ideas and thoughts for the Book
Wednesday 11 July
..phase one of screenprinting on the Table
Thursday 05 July
..writting staff and designing the patterns for the Table project
Wednesday 20 June
..screenprinting tests for the Table project
Monday 18 June
..after a weekend in Asteris' workshop, the table is cut and ready
Friday 01 June
..The Table project starts
Wednesday 30 May
..playing around with photos
Thursday 10 May
..detail sketches of Underpass features
Wednesday 09 May
..a new idea for some form of publication on the Underpass design process
Friday 27 April
..concept volume model of the Underpass.
Tuesday 10 April
..massing model of the Underpass and video created.
Monday 09 April
..new layout design for this blog.
Monday 02 April
..The first layout for th Underpass project is issued.
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1 comment:
Another example of deconstructing a typeface. This time Helvetica.
A process where each letter is divided on a square grid and then divided to smaller pieces. At the end of the 20 frames, each piece is rotated 180ยบ resulting on an abstract image, an alteration of the primitive letter.
Continuing the process, we apply the initial letter on a layer above the resulting image and subtract the exceeding pieces.
The result is a modification of the typeface and the creation of a new one as a result of further development and experimentation.
A game of architectural processes inspired from deconstructing elements of an existing primitive. Nevertheless an exiting process without particular results, discovering new grids, and subdivisions of what sometimes we assume to be the primitive element.
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