More Research

Research on designers that work with different languages other than English to get an idea on how I can put together my own images with the type I've collected.

 Reza Abedini

 I like how he's incorporated the text with photographs and outlines of people to be part of the same image rather than two seperate elements.  I also like how the photos aren't dominating the overall images.

Natasha Kumar

 

I've chosen to include some of her work in with my research primarily because of the combination of languages within the images.  What stands out to me the most however, is the bold, flourescing colours she uses in her work which I love.

Family Photos

A few of the photographs I will be using for my FMP.  I want to use as many of the photos as I can in some way, whether its taking sections for different backgrounds or utlising the outlines/silhouettes of the people in them for image making.

Alighiero Boetti Inspiration!

I came across the designer Alighiero Boetti during my research and I was drawn to the amount of colour he uses in his work and how, like on the Map, he doesn't conform to the idealism that sea has to be blue on an image which really attracted my attention.  Another thing which stands out for me is the variety of different languages he includes within his work such as Persian, Urdu, English etc.  This made me realise that I can push my project further by looking at the shapes of letter forms and symbols of other languages and incorporating them im my own work.

I also came across his 24 lettere dall' Afghanistan (24 Letters from Afghanistan) which has inspired me to include really old family photographs, some sent from Yemen and from my own family in England which have messages written on the back in Arabic and English.  I want to also look into other interestingly shaped languages such as Hindi, Thai and also the Phoenician alphabet and Roman Numerals.  By including family photographs I feel like my project is gaining much more depth because it's more personal and hopefully this will result in some interesting outcomes.

'g'

I've started looking at the shapes of letterforms and experimenting in different methods of creating them because I think that to incorporate type into my images as images rather than to communicate a message would be a much more interesting concept.

I thought of doing this during some observational drawing of type blocks.  My favourite was g because I really like the curves and shapes that create the letter, so continued experimenting with different methods in making it.

These are some of the experiments I attempted usings inks and pastels.  I made the 3rd image by creating the letter using maskingn tape and then dripping ink down the page.  The tapeacted as a barrier protecting the page so when it was removed I was left with the shape.  I'm pleased with how it turned out as I wasn't sure how resilient the tape would be and I like how the g is angular rather than curved.

I scanned the image and created a digital version using a combination of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator because I thought that the marks made from the ink were nice and fluid and I was interested in what the outcome would be like if it was a digital image with block colours.  I quite like it in a way because I think the two tone colours compliment another but I think it would've looked better with bolder colours that aren't in the same colour spectrum.