Animated alphabet

Letter press

WE DID IT!
Finely we've finished our letter press task. I was so dreaming about the day when I could see all 200 copies hanging and drying there in letter press studio.

One of the very first drafts

St Brides Type Talk

LCC organised for us a visit to St. Brides library which actually was a very first building of LCC in 1894. But it called London college of printing. Lecture was read by head librarian Nigel Roche. He told us about the very first technology of making paper. A very first newspaper, how it was produced and how do they produce it now. What is the difference between paper and papyrus. And a lot of useful, interesting information.

London ABC's or Letter hunting

On our Typo workshop Paul asked us to collect interesting letters in London. Now it's time to put them here. I actually didn't count them if it will be less than 20 I will update this post later. Anyway collecting letters are very fascinating because it's always about looking around and some times it's  possible to find out something new in the things that you saw hundred of times before. Thats how I discovered Blue people on the wall of Maya house on Old Kent Road (as far as I remember...). I was there a lot of times but saw them only when I was trying to capture some letter nearby. 

Found it somewhere around "City". Still can't get exact meaning of the words... They're made of plastic cups.

 'T'

 'A'

 'A'

'X'

Made of Lego.

 Numbers.

And those Blue people =)

Back to the very beginnings

Tuesday 26 of october. I waited to this day all month. I love typography and I love letters. Its very fun to play around with fonts and make interesting pictures using your imagination and  computer. But it's more interesting to write letters and make a compositions by hand. Maybe it could sound strange but they seems like some alive creatures  for me. Just imagine single letter could give only one sound, but when you put together two or three letters it becomes a word with some particular meaning. 

Even when I am doing logo, I prefer use letters and try to avoid icons. I mean letters could give so much information especially if to use them right.  In fact it's easier to remember one letter instead some picture. (well it does for me). Paul showed us some examples of logos in the end of the workshop which helped me to approve my point once again.  

Especially love this one. Because of the arrow which appeared as a resolute of any kerning space between letters.

However I found this work shop pretty exiting because it's has been a long time since I haven't done any  typo things by hands. Back to the very beginnings (Computer killed my handmade creativity).  

Here are some photos that I took during our class.

 Scaling, reshaping and outlining letters

 It is possible to do so many different shapes and visuals from one letter.

Then it was name writing task. Some one wrote a Stinky Farty name. Still wondering who was it... Anyway that made me smile.

This is my one. Quite wavy isn't it? (J)

On this task we were suppose to convey meaning of the word through changing sizes kernings and letter turns.

 Found it much more fun and exiting than previous two.