Costa del Sol Chadwick level 6 graphic design

X is a really tricky letter to find typographic terms relating to therefore it was a bit of a struggle at first and research was broad just to get to a general direction. One such unused direction of research that I will look to pick back up in the future when I have more time and fewer restrictions was found via Chinese artist Xu Bing's  fusion of English and Chinese. Xu created some glyphs that could be read both in Chinese via their squared semiotic approach to language and in English as some of the Chinese strokes resembled Latin letters.  After a big headache and lots of sketches, I decided to simplify and get the letter done by revisiting the Greek alphabet which in turn had its own criteria pondering points as the Greek letter than gave its aesthetic to our modern X, Chi does not begin with X. For this reason I set about combining the 2 constituents of the ks sound we're used to Xi and Chi.  "Both in classical  Ancient Greek  and in  Modern G...

W is a trickly letter to find something interesting on and therefore the two terms I lined up were quite generalist. Out of web and weight, I eventually plumped for weight due to the enormous range of possibilities and the fact that web sounded really boring. The research was fairly limited due to weight being such a basic principal: "The  weight  of a particular font is the thickness of the character outlines relative to their height. A typeface may come in many weights, from ultra-light to extra-bold or black. Four to six weights are not unusual, and a few typefaces have as many as a dozen" Instead of creating a letterform that was either bold or light I decided it would be nice to create something that displayed heavy contrast between constituting geometries and joining lines. Focusing on silhouette as the primary concern I started to sketch out some ideas. Finding the bottom right sketch visually satisfying with its three equal bell triangles making a simplist...

V was fairly set in stone with Venetian or Vitra written down as possibilities. Vitra was supposed to represent Bauhaus era chairs because I went to the Vitra design museum in Switzerland and they had a lot of lovely modernism, however, upon further I found that Vitra itself is only inspired by Bauhaus era and hold a large archive of chairs for inspiration and because the founders were collectors. Therefore it was back to Venetian type, I know I touched on this field a little earlier on in the series as I went for serif humanism for my H but Venetian typography refers more especially to the renaissance perspective from one of its birthplaces Venice. Also known as Antiqua, Venetian spring up in the late 1400s, replacing blackletter as a standardised typestyle that imitated handwriting. It was of uniform thickness and thus appeared quite dark on paper. The humanist writing of Italian scholars of the Renaissance served as a model for what is now known as the Venetian style. Nicolas ...

There aren't too many typographic terms beginning with U and I suspect there won't be from here to Z. The main one I could think of was Uncial, the all capital script used from the 4th to 8th century AD by Latin and Greek scribes in the middle ages. Uncials has a simplicity of form that you don't see in later, more decorative blackletter but it can also be described as a Gothic text. These days more commonly associated with Irish bars the style has been forgotten a little but I think its quirks and at times elegant transitional strokes can be translated into modern aesthetic quite easily. With this in mind, I decided to stray a little away from the calligraphic weightings of the original typeface and go for a way more chunky form as  that displayed tasteful contrast. There's a beautiful uniformity to uncials that makes the type almost modular at times as most letter conform to the same rounded module. This makes me perceive it as a form of writing somewhat before its ti...

T is for the style of blackletter that actually proceeds yesterdays Schwabacher. Textualis or textura blackletter and is also linked to my J as the style Johanes Guttenberg used for his Guttenberg bible can be classified as a form of textualis so I've got a lot of experience in this particular style by now, therefore, today's presentation was important to make the form interesting and not get too bogged down in uniformity of my alphabet. It's unfortunate that these three forms of blackletter writing including tomorrow Uncials come together in order and I couldn't think of any other writing styles or features beginning with T. Turning this into a positive though its an opportunity to innovate and demonstrate I am versatile within the genre. I did learn however that there are many different forms of textualis that fit under the blanket term, this is not surprising considering the style was popular for hundreds of years between the late 1200s and early 1500s. Also, the t...