Wednesday 15th February, 2017
The Stencil / Abstract Typography
The second and most recent process and production session from Deakin was carrying on with the stencil work style and media. Having moved from no image just text, to image and text, we're coming back full circle and having a just text based piece. During this session the task at hand was to go around the four different available typefaces and take attributes of each of them to create a pattern of shapes. You had to take the areas of each letter that you cut off and make a new letter, or pattern, or compose it in a different way so that it would no long be classed as the initial letter.
In total I ended up creating five different pieces for this session. I found myself going much faster during this session because of the fact that it was pattern based and as such made the session run much more quickly in terms of how much work I could get completed. This exercise, introduced in the session, is a good one if you want to create a series of patterns quickly within a small time frame. The patterns seem like they could be applicable to a variety of materials or different medias, which with further experimentation could prove to give interesting results.
