Design Context: alphabet soup boom research OUGD403

The in the studio in our blog groups we looked at the research we had collected of the 30 different typefaces we had found for our summer brief. We created different sub categories to organize the typefaces into and laid them out on the table..

Our brief is to create 10 letter forms that explore and communicate your interpretation of the word that we have been given from the randomiser.

Requirements:- each image should contain only one letter form but the set should demonstrate a rang of possible solutions. Each resolved letter form should be supported by a broad rang of visual investigation in the form of design sheets and notebooks.

Deliverable's:- 10 , 10x10 resolutions each representing a well crafted and clearly presented typographic form.

My word that i selected from the randomiser was :- BOOM

I first researched the word boom...

Research...

The most obvious images found were big explosive pictures the first thing you think of when you think of the word boom.

I found these images on google . These images are bright and bold which i was what i wanted to create for my 10 letters. I would initially use the colour red but we had to keep our letters either black or white.

This image is of an actual explosion i really wanted to have the after effects of the explosion to create the route of my development for the word boom. eg. crumbled rubble.

I looked at more possible ideas like loud fonts and sound waves. For sound waves i always thought they were in a stereotypical line like up and down. I then found an image of sound being produced from a horn and i love the ripple affect it still looks broken up and fits in with the idea i had of crumbled pieces.

I really enjoyed looking for different typefaces to that looked like crumbled rock to give me inspiration for my 10 letters. I found a few 'rock' types on a type website but they weren't crumbled and broken up enough as i wanted i looked at another website and chose a possible three types to re-create.