Monday, 12 December 2016

Helvetica

Today's lecture and seminar was focussed around Helvetica. We looked at the Helvetica documentary about typography and graphic design. The documentary was released to mark the 50th anniversary of the typefaces creation, it aims to show how Helvetica was created and explores modernism and postmodernism.

We also looked briefly at David Carson, an American graphic designer and art director that is best known for his use of experimental typography. I have researched David Carson before and really love his typography work, I could consider using it as inspiration for future projects.

The seminar was about using existing typography to create a new one, and exploring different shapes and letter forms that create words and new shapes that look interesting and personalised. I really enjoyed this task and I am really happy with the outcome.


Typography created using existing