Costa del Sol Chadwick level 6 graphic design

As a quarantine bonus the organisers have added an extra character to symbolise togetherness. With lots of stuff on I didn't have much time to produce this surprise edition so I just did some quick research confirming the etymology the ampersand before getting sketching with a 6mm pen. "& is for ampersand - a quick entry for the bonus round. Originally the 27th letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from the ‘et’ ligature used in cursive writing"

@solchadwick By today we had to submit a summary of our 36 characters from start to finish. My set was eclectic and colourful as I had set out for with an interesting set of visual trends that picked up intermittently throughout either through unconscious design or coincidence. I displayed the full 36 on one tile, then a spelt out message 'THANK YOU 36 D.O.T" and then my top 3 most liked posts. Coincidentally 2 of the 3 top liked came from the set of number, maybe a reflection of my growing confidence, experimentation and time committed as the project progressed.  I think my response did certainly increase in complexity as the days passed and there were certainly some lulls in the middle as it became tricky to maintain a certain standard. I also found that attaching the letterforms to certain artists or movement and then tagging said artist/movement helped to generate likes from non-followers. I certainly found myself becoming increasingly immersed in the production of each ...

This is now the 36th day that I've woken up and been filled with dread and excitement as I scrambled around for research and prepared a response for 36 days of type. Today was the turn of the number 9 which I would ordinarily form by flipping a 6 and performing some minor adjustments but today, of course, I had to go out on a solid level and make sure the quality (which I think has been exceptional throughout the numbers) doesn't drop. This thought, however, can put a lot of pressure on and today, like any other, I felt at times that the number was largely shit. I was a little worried about my choice of number as it dates back to a similar era as most of the letters but I think the style itself has such strong connotations of an era Scifi era that its pretty transient across time. Time, however, was the reason that linked Futurism to the number 9 as I found out the movement was conceived in 1909. Credited to an Italian poet called Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who released his Ma...

Another day another tribute to modernism. I have found that the modernist era displays a plethora of numerically represented art and design due to the fundamentalism of the time. Russian constructivist Wassily Kandinsky displayed a utopian perspective as part of the Russain Avant-garde of the 1920s. As a defining characteristic of constructivism, he used rigidly geometric forms that overlapped constantly on a two-dimensional plane but his flagrant expressionism was against much of his typically constructivist peers and gave him particular poignance during the Bauhaus epoch.  "Composition 8   (  Komposition 8  ) In 1922 Kandinsky joined the faculty of the Weimar  Bauhaus , where he discovered a more sympathetic environment in which to pursue his art. Originally premised on a Germanic, expressionistic approach to artmaking, the Bauhaus aesthetic came to reflect Constructivist concerns and styles, which by the mid-1920s had become international in scope. Wh...

An interesting article I found on Creative Bloq has made me realise that producing a type foundry right now wouldn't be the best use of my time and therefore I'm going to scrap brief 8. The original timetabled proposal was to use some of my final month to get a physical specimen out in collaboration with a craftsman, however, with covid-19 it doesn't look like that's going to be possible and I have taken advice that there could be a few headaches with setting up my own digital foundry, namely around licencing and without interaction with the buyer there could be some issues around licensing that I don't have the financial means to enforce. It's probably better to sit on the idea for now and look into selling fonts through a mediating third party.      "You've created your own typeface. Now what? Whether you harbor a secret desire to see designers and  creative directors  around the world using your fonts, or simply put some recent downtime to go...

Todays 7 was inspired by yet another modernist artwork from my favourite genre of modernist sculpture 'mobiles'. Alexander Calder is widely credited as being the inventor of the medium but I first became interested in them through Bruno Munari who featured earlier in my series. Today I delved a bit deeper into the history of mobiles to help educate my response. The sculpture is named in classical modernist, descriptive, fashion as it features 7 horizontal disks as a variety of more abstract shapes that hang purposefully and revolve around each other in perfect equilibrium and poise. This sense of reliance of forms and balance was essential within my 7. One of the main reasons I chose this sculpture was its immediate resemblance to the number in question. I wanted to mimic some of the joins and reliant angles in a way without overly ripping off the exact configurations of Calder discs. "Who made the first mobile? Or, who invented mobiles?  The short answer is that ...

Today was a bit all over the place I started off compiling ideas for the 6 laws of Gestalt that best apply to graphic design: similarity, continuation, proximity, closure, figure/ground and symmetry/order. Eventually, I decided that it was going to be too complicated to cover all 6 principles in one character so I decided to move my attentions on to my back up topic. Paul Klees 'In the Current 6 Thresholds'. The Guggenheim had this to say about the Bauhaus era painting that resides in their collection: "In the Current Six Thresholds, 1929   (  In der Strömung sechs Schwellen  ) An assiduous student of music, nature, mathematics, and science, Klee applied this constellation of interests to his art at every turn. Even his purely abstract works have their own particular subject matter.   In the Current Six Thresholds , an austere composition of horizontal chromatic stripes divided into smaller units and intersected by vertical bands has been compared to landscape...

I was struggling at first to come up with a style relating to the number 5, prior to today I had considered les conquer, the small, turn of the 20th-century art movement but I could find enough interesting information on it and decided it was too similar to the era of cubism from yesterday. I stumbled upon Fab 5 Freddy, the most famous member of the 1980s New York graffiti group the fabulous 5. "Fred Brathwaite  (born August 31, 1959), a.k.a  Fab 5 Freddy , is an American visual artist, filmmaker, and  hip hop,  pioneer.  In the late 1970s, Freddy became a member of the Brooklyn-based graffiti group the Fabulous 5, known for painting the entire side of   New York City Subway   cars. Along with other Fabulous 5 member   Lee Quiñones , under his direction, they began to shift from street graffiti to transition into the art world and in 1979 they both exhibited in a prestigious gallery in Rome Italy, Galleria LaMedusa. In 1980, he painted a subwa...