Font Development
After the workshop, I went away and made each letter of the alphabet in the style of the font that I had chosen to develop. To make lowercase letters I would reduce the sizes of the font to allow but they would remain visually identical. I would reduce the size by 25%, while maintaing the aspect-ratio.
The name of my second blog is Walker Design
I then decided to present the font as a poster and include a few illustrations. I wanted the illustrations to reflect the simplicity of the font itself which is why I have tried to keep them un-complicated as possible, using only three colours and little detail.
I started by dragging each font onto the blank canvas and resizing them to fit. Then I ordered them correctly and duplicated some to make my title and credit at the bottom. Once I was happy with the layout I used the line tool to create the black roads and the grid tool and brush tool to create the markers on the road.
To continue the city theme I then created a simple car graphic originally based off the style of the iconic London Black Cab, seen on the bottom right. I recycled this graphic to make the other coloured cars.
It was important to make the poster support the context of the font so that it is clear that the charavcters represent high-rise buildings.
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