Everything started from picking an area in DNA, and I picked genetics, the way traits are passed on from generation to generation, and what rare and common traits are between two parents and a child. I only picked this topic so that it would appeal to a wider audience and didn't want to explore my personal family as I saw most of my group mates were doing that. I decided to make a typeface because my interest/curiosity and love for typography. As I am still fairly new to the whole 'typography in graphic design', I was a bit nervous to choose the field, but I picked it in hope that after completing this FMP, I would be much more confident with my typography knowledge and would take that with me as a positive to University! And I'm happy to say that while completing this FMP, the skills and information I have took in have helped me so much!
My earlier research was just based on inspiration from other typographer and their style of work, but I was also trying to find maybe other graphic designers who had tried making hybrids of some sort and that's where I came across frank the grotesque blackletter, which became a strong inspirational work for me! Visits to galleries and museums were also recorded on the blog, and even though they didn't help me towards my typeface design, they helped me understand the basis of design, the principles of GOOD design.
The reason my typeface took a lot of time to create was because I had set myself to create the parental fonts as well, the blackletter and the san-serif, so that when fused together to create a offspring that will be totally original. My attention for the parental fonts was very much serious as I didn't want to rush them in anyway. Also, when starting to create my blackletter font, I had to go out and get some primary images to get myself familiar with the common shape of a blackletter typeface and for the san-serif, I took Helvetica as my main inspiration. Once the parental fonts were made, thats where the fun started for me, as I started splicing both the fonts together! I did this on paper and not on the Mac, as I wanted much more natural breeding, and the traits will be totally in my control without the obvious traits showing on the screen. Once the hybrid was made (which I was very delighted by), I started looking and got hold of a font editor that would make my font useable for everyone (as that was one of the deliverables I had listed in my proposal). I will keep working at making Splice, in a satisfactory condition for people to use, up until the end of year show!
And the posters in the end, I kept very simple and to the point! They narrate the fusion or Splicing should I say of both the parental typefaces to create something so..cool! Planning for the end of year show still continue, but as a last comment on the whole project, I enjoyed it A LOT! This was by far one of the best projects in the whole year and there is nothing I would want to change about it. Using the blogs was a very different yet fun experience. It is deffo an alternate for sketchbooks, as the annotation was much more easier, and it surely did save us some printer ink! but most importantly it was just so much easier as you can upload images and even videos in just a few clicks... If only we had got to use blogs for previous projects!
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