Tag: Typography

The chocolate experiment As development into creating the imagery for my magazine-like interview for print, I decided to experiment with type and food. In part of the interview I have with Oded Ezer he’s questioned;  ‘What is the purpose of your experiments?’ “My first purpose is to have fun. Experimenting for me means playing a game […]

Experimenting with my interpretation of ‘fun’ typography. Type good enough to eat.

These images are of typography created from potato sliced and fried to be used in promotional material for a band. Although I couldn’t find the designer, I found this particular experiment helpful for layout and the impact physical type imagery can have on the cover of a book. The space around the type is white […]

Continuing on my theme of nature and typography, this is an example of molding nature to create the lettering. I collected leaves from my garden and carefully cut out letters that partially ran along the lines of the leaves; that way the font I was cutting out wasn’t random.

Experimenting with the idea of nature and typography, I gathered as many colourful plants, twigs, flowers in my garden that I could find to make up the lettering. Apart from the many bugs I found crawling around my room from the plant life, it was a lot of fun arranging the natural objects; seeing what […]

So what is ridiculous typography? My theme for my magazine spread about Oded Ezer is ‘ridiculous typography’. To expand further I need to determine what really is ridiculous typography? Is it 3D typography that I’ve favored in my recent posts. Or is ridiculous type something unreadable and pointless? In my opinion, ridiculous typography could be […]

“I hope to be ridiculous until the day I die” – Oded Ezer.The interview on typeradio.org with Oded Ezer, left me much clearer in what I want to get out of design. He’s so enthusiastic and passionate about his work, and answered all questions with consideration and expressively. The quotation above is one that caught […]

Decision time… From all the designers, the one in particular that stood out for me was Oded Ezer. How we have to choose our designers in entirely up to us, so rather than searching through the work of each typographer and favouring one that way; I decided to just listen to each interview and get […]