These letterforms was created using a pencil, marker pen, white and black card and a scalpel. As we was limited to a colour palette of black and white, i wanted to create the large majority of my final letterforms by just using white and black card and cutting, almost stencil like, silhouette designs. I figured by keeping the designs quite simple, they would work better as letterforms, which is more than likely, often the case. This has proven the case for some of my letters but as you can see , some have worked better than others.
I am really pleased with how this idea has transferred into the black and white card. I created two of these at the same time, using the inverse to see which one worked the best. I personally like the top one more, the black on white, and that seems to be the case for most people i have asked around the studio.
the next letterform has been created in the same style. Stretching the 3D form backwards. This time i chose to use a lower case 't' as it has more curves and and lines to see how this would work in this style. I am pleased again with the result. It really stands out and works well under the describing word stretch. It looks like the letter it stretching out towards you.
When handcrafting my next letterform. i thought about taking a normal lower case 't' then stretching the ends out. So as you can see, the cross line across the top of t stretched to the right hand side of the page and the flick at the bottom i brought back and stretched it up towards the other line. I am pleased with this design, it is legible as a 't' even though you don't quite see it at first but the curves and lines work really well in this one.
One of the more minimalistic final outcomes. Basically just taking an upper case 'T' and stretching it down to fit in the frame.
Another fairly simple design. For this, i thought about expanding and stretching the letterform outside of the boundaries of the square, then leaving what was left inside the square as the final letterform. I think it was quite a nice way to look and it under the word ' STRETCH'.
A similar concept to the last one, stretching the lower case 't' outside of the boundaries of the square.
Another way of stretching the 'T' inside of the frame. This time i have used the word 'EXPAND' so that nearly the whole box has been taken up by my letterform.
I wanted to alter the perspective of the 'T' to make it look like it was lying stretched across the frame, then with these long lines added to the bottom, i have stretched the whole letterform towards the front.
Again, i crated a negative of this to see which one works best. Much like the last one, i prefer the black on white.
This is the only letterform i have created using fine markers instead of the white and black card. I feel it still fits with the theme of my letterforms, although it is very different. A more illustrative response to the question. As you can see, this was based on stretchy and sticky chewing gum!
This is the last of my 10 letterforms. This was a really nice idea, but i don't think the final piece came out how i wanted as it looked much better in the design process. However, it still works well and looks nice as a letterform. If i had more time, i would re-visit this letter from the original designs and see how i could improve it.
This was a design i created that i chose not to use in my final 10 letterforms. The result isn't quite how i intended but the lines are to represent the elasticity of an elastic band.
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