Experimental Type


Physical Lettering and Materals Exploration



Title
Material Exploration for physical letterforms

Materials
Steel Wool, Magnets, Cardstock

Materials
Photography and experimental letterforms
Description

This project was centered around material exploration and experimenting with letterforms. My goal was to create letterforms with an alternative material choosing from a list of 50 materials.








Title
Alternative Letter Forms Poster

Materials
Magazine clippings, Wood blocks, Glue, Torch

Constraints
  • Make letter forms from magazine clippings

  • Arrange to spell specific word

  • Show meaning of word some how in final poster
Description
The process to create this project started by using magazine letters and their inverse as a resist for wood burning on wooden blocks. The word “alternative” was fitting for the woodblocks treatment and gave the final photos a unified message.









Title
Material Exploration with premade type

Materials
Tinfoil, Plastic letter stamps, pressure

Medium
Photography and experimental letterforms
Description

For this exploration I used premade plastic letter that are usualy used for marking cookies and baked goods. With enough pressure I was able to pimprint a letter form in to a layerd piece of tinfoil.








Examples (slideshow)