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My font, "Phonte", used to spell out various words that you might see in the real world used for signage or labels. Phonte can be described as static, creepy or pix-elated.

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My second font, named Phonte, needs some refining but overall I enjoy the sloppiness of the typeface. It's almost reminding me of a late night teen TV program from the 90's.

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First attempt at designing a typeface on FontStruct

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Garamond:
is a group of old-style serif typefaces designed by a Parisian named Claude Garamond in the 16th century. Garamond type is best known for its readability. Most novels and poems we've read in garamond without noticing. 



Serifa:
is a slab serif typeface family created by Adrian Frutiger in 1964. It is based of the Univers family.


platlet:
is a typeface inspired by license plates. Its was designed by Conor Mangat in 1993.  

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                                               Phase 1

                                                Phase 2

                                                 Phase 3

  

 This project required us to explore the different ways of arranging text on a grid. This was done in three phases. The first phase was a more hands on approach. We were given a set of words in different sizes and boldness. We arranged them in different patterns, keeping hierarchy in mind, 15 ways and taped them to the grid. Phase two was the same except we were to do a digital version on the computer. We also were allowed to add color and rules. Finally phase 3 was an exploration of over sized type. We were allowed to make any word or letter as large as we wanted.

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Wolfgang Wiengart is a German graphic designer and typographer. He is known as the "father" of New Wave or Swiss Punk typography. He met his mentor, Karl-August Hanke, at his three year apprenticeship in hot metal hand composition at Ruwe Printing. According to Weingart, "I took 'Swiss Typography' as my starting point, but then I blew it apart, never forcing any style upon my students. I never intended to create a 'style'.

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Neville Brody is an English typographer, art director, and graphic designer. Brody was in print school when 1970's rock culture was becoming popular. He was very moved by it and applied it to his designs. He made a name for himself by becoming a successful art director for The Face magazine. In 1994, with his business partner Fwa Richards, launched their own design practice: Research Studios.

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Josef Müller Brockmann was a Swiss graphic designer. He studied architecture and design at the Kunstgewerbeschule in  Zurich. In 1936 he open his own graphic design and photography studio in Zurich. In the 60's, Brockmann was appointed European design consultant to IBM. He is also well known for his published books on design and visual communication. 

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Piet Zwart was a Dutch photographer and typographer. He trained as an architect, which also included designing furniture and interiors. His architectural style evolved toward a more functional design after he worked with De Stijl. He began his graphic design career at age thirty-six. He realized how important typography was for the 20th century, so he decided to change it.




  

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Max Bill was a Swiss architect, painter, typeface, industrial, and graphic designer. After designing and building his own house and studio he became a crucial member in the Allianz group of Swiss artists. Bill was considered one of the important influences on Swiss graphic design in the 1950′s.

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Adrian Frutiger is typeface designer who was a massive influence on digital typography in the late 20th century. His most popular typeface was Univers. Frutiger started off his early career by becoming an apprentice to the printer Otto Schlaeffli in Interlaken. He then studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich, there he mostly practiced and perfected his calligraphy techniques. Frutiger was recruited to the Deberny & Peignot after his work caught Charles Peignot eye. He and Peignot worked together and challanged each other to push the boundaries of typeface. Taking influence from Akzidenz Grotesk, Frutiger developed his Univers font.










 

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For our first official exploration of type we were given a grid template and various fonts and sizes with which we cut out and glued in different orders and layouts across the grid. These are two of my favorite layouts. 

[Po], T1

combined with group (letter project)

Considered [Po], T1

 

Our first assignment was to find letters in nature or construct our how. I chose to make mine out of toilet paper, no specific reason there was just a sheet laying on my floor. The letters were very easy to construct so I forced myself to push the concept further and make them more interesting. When I uploaded the images and played around with editing I found that from far away, the letters looked kinda like glowing lanterns because of the layering of paper.