Illustrator

Grid pattern for number 37

Exploring Adobe Illustrator and linking it with typography. The workshop was focussed around visual games within creative practice and particularly looking on the 'Morpholo' tile game designed by Thieri Foulc in 1985. Taking inspiration from this, the task was to focus on basic pen tool skills and the manipulation of typographic letters. I really enjoyed this task after understanding how it works and how to get each of the shapes or letters in the correct place, corresponding to the numbers for each tile.



Before beginning any digital based work I drew out and practiced some different types of fonts by hand, looking at close details that could be used to create alternate shapes for the tiles. I then took these skills to apply to the next text, developing the tiles - choosing 12 random numbers and figuring out how the number corresponds to the tile pattern:

I continued this for all 12 of the numbers and sketched out how they would look digitally.


Moving into Illustrator I then began to make to tiles using different letters and fonts to fill the black spaces. I really like the final outcome of them, they look abstract and unique.