Helvetica- The Movie
My thoughts on the movie- Helvetica For further font research I decided to watch the movie Helvetica. This is my chosen font for my specimen screen and therefore I felt as though it would give me a good overlook of
IXD102- A Century of Change reflection
In week 3’s IXD102 lecture Kyle talked about how the new century saw new technology that would change the world forever. He began the lecture explaining the history of the invention of photography and motion picture. We discussed how the Lumiere
IXD102- Type Specimen group critique
Group Critique This class was the group critique and I showed my posters to my lecturers and my peers, I created multiple posters and Pauline liked the look of the poster below and wanted to see me develop this
IXD102- Type Specimen Development with Colour
Experimenting with Colour I took my type specimens into Adobe XD and played around with different colour combinations. I used a range of colour palettes for each of my specimens as I wanted to try different combinations and ideas. I
IXD102- Type Specimen Screen Development
Final 3 designs I have taken my final 3 design sketches and began to build them on Adobe XD. I have decided to keep colour out of the equation for now as I am just focusing on form and composition.
IXD102- Gutenberg & Beyond Lecture
Our second lecture in IxD102 was titled Gutenberg & Beyond. ‘Type is clothing for words’ – Erik Spiekermann Kyle began this lecture by explaining the importance of choosing the right type for the right context, I liked this quote
IXD102- Type Specimen sketches
Type Specimen Sketches: Taking inspiration from my mood boards and other examples of typeface posters I have tried and tested a range of composition ideas for my type specimen screen; from blowing up the scale of one
IXD102- Inspiration for Type specimen screen
Type Specimen Screen Mood board I created a simple mood board on Milanote of type specimen posters I came across online. I found these particular posters impressive for multiple reasons, such as, their compositions and the sizing of
Fonts in Everyday Life
Whilst walking the streets of Belfast I gathered a lot of font inspiration, from signs on the street, to the names of local businesses and even street graffiti. I got some snaps of my favourites:
IXD102 Type Specimen Screen- Font Research
BREIF- Create a type specimen for screen based on one of the fonts: Futura, Gill sans, Helvetica, Palatino, Times New Roman or Baskerville. From looking at all of the above fonts I decided on Helvetica and to research further into