Thursday, 18 January 2018

Secondary research for typography

For my secondary research I created multiple mood boards to visually express ideas I have for the display boards, once I have created these the class will rejoin as a group and collaborate to create on finale idea.
Here is my first mood board working with the neon lights, I feel like something like this will be very slick and also add a relaxing atmosphere to the class room without the need of the generic yellow class room lighting. 

One thing we would need to consider about the neon lighting is where we would source the lighting from and how we could shape and mould the piping of the lights into a specific font, so if we were to go forward with the idea of using lighting, then we would need to use a simple font which I will keep in mind when creating my mood board on my font idea. Although I didn't chose it in this mood board, my intention is to use white neon lighting as I feel like it wont clash with other colours used in the class room. 

My next idea is to up cycle pallets made from wood into all the different letters we would need to make the quote 'It doesn't get easier, you just get better.' Which will take a lot of work as the letters will need to be cut out individually, then individual holes created to push fairy lights through, as you can tell I like the idea of using lighting. I feel like this project idea is do able but will need a lot of time, I will see what the class feedback is. 






After solidifying my finale, two main ideas I decided at look into my ideal font. I decided on Arial as it seems like the most simple font to create, if needed at all as spoken about earlier. I really like Arial, as it is it a statement font that it easy to red. Another reason I chose this font is due to the fact that as you can see from my mood board, a lot of neon lighting use the font which suggests it might be easier to create the lettering using it, if nothing else the arial font in neon lighting show an example of what the work could look like. 



Finally, I created a coloured mood board of which theme we could go for. I feel like the earthy tones could look really good in contrast to the white neon lighting that we could possibly chose to use, another i like the idea of earth tones is because it could compliment the wooden letter idea really well, keeping the overall theme natural and subtile.  






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