Alphabet Soup Final Letters.

Here are my final designs...

This is my first finished letter I think that it follows the conventions of condensed the best as it is the one that looks the most like current typefaces. I like the bold appearance and clean lines.

This design is the opposite of the one above, I don't like it as much as I feel it sacrifices readability to fit in with the theme. Although this was one of letters that got chosen by the group that critted our work as their final five as they thought it was the one that portrayed 'condensed' the best.

I really like this design because of the simplicity and the pattern that has been created by the surrounding lines. I also think it portrays an object being condensed inside something really well.

This idea follows the theme well too. I think it is interesting how altering the form in this way has created a new and interesting typeface, with a design that could be applied to other letters.

This is one of my favourite examples as I really like the overall look and the concept behind it. This is also another letter that was chosen by our crit group as they liked how the letter was still visible even without including a solid outline.

This design is another that I really like, I think this is because of the stylistic appearance with the bubbles and again how the letter has been created without using an outline.

I like the concept behind this letter. I think that the bold, simple letter looks good with drip design feature and creates a realistic and impressive overall look.

This example took the longest to create as it involved lots of tracing and detailed colouring. I was worth putting the effort in though as I really like how all the boxes fit together.

I think this is one of the designs that could be maybe hard to understand with the back up explanation. as it could be hard to tell that the added flourishes are being removed, therefore condensing it tom make more simple.

Finally I think this design is another that might need more explanation. To begin I experimented with making it shorter by cutting off the top and leaving it like that, although I found that it looked more like a 'h', this is why I included the top and just reversed it as a design feature.

Alphabet Soup Development.

Here are some textures that I have drawn to help develop some ideas for my final designs...

This idea is about not the letter being condensed but the shapes that create the letter being so, so that they form the shape. My least favourite is the stripes because I feel that it is less interesting than the others. I really like the triangle design but I think that it could be quite hard to recreate and form the shape I want. Finally is the squares, I think this is what I will use because I like the pattern it creates and think it will look good on a larger scale.

Next are my condensation bubble illustrations, inspired by the imagery I found on the internet. I really    like the white sample but I think I will do the black one so it fits more with the collection of other letters.

Here are some circle experiments that  will use for my design showing the process of gas turning to liquid. I think I will have to incorporate it into my letter shape before I decide what size to use, but I think it most likely going to be one of the smaller ones.

Lastly is my condensation drips I think these would look really successful coming off of the letter like in my photography research.

Alphabet Soup Initial Drawings.

Yesterday I did some initial drawings based on the definitions I had read. To begin with they were quite easy to come up with, but as I got further through it got more challenging. Even though, I found that the ones I did at the end were more creative than the first because of this struggle. I tried to come up with a design for each of my definitions, hopefully this translates across. One problem I think I might have when showing these to an audience is that it may be hard to link them to 'condense' without reading the research I have done prior to this. At the moment the sketches are quite basic but I think they will be helpful as something to base my final pieces on...

Alphabet Soup Initial Ideas.

Today we were set our first brief from our design skills module...

The word I recieved was condense, so the first thing I did was to draw out some initial ideas. They are all very rough, but it demonstrates some of my first thoughts transferred to paper...

 

I then looked up the definition in the dictionary and noted them down to help gather some more inspiration. Here are some defintions that I found...

1. Turn from gas to liquid.
2. Make shorter.
3. To reduce something, such as a piece of writing, in length.
4. To make more concise.
5. To undergo condensation.
6. To make something dense, more concentrated.
7. To make a liquid thicker by removing some of the water.
8. Compress/contract.
9. To become more compact.

At the moment I am quite unsure about what routes I will follow, I think some further experimentation and research is needed before I am decided.