Heebok Lee Inspired Experimentation

Inspired by the animated Typographic work of Heebok Lee, we experimented using pastels, charcoal and illustrator methods.

3D Typography

In class we made the alphabet out of different materials, the group I was in had different types of fabric, ribbons and string/wool/ We arranged the items to create every letter in the alphabet. Each letter is made using different techniques and presented in a different style. The "F" is simply an F-shape cut out of grey-material/fabric, the "D" is made up of fabrics folded into useful shapes that make up a D-shape with a white smaller D-shape in the centre to represent the empty space and outlined using pink ribbon. We decided to make the "Z" out of everything we had available to us as it was the last letter and we wanted to end the alphabet with a big finale. I really enjoyed using fabric as it's fairly simple and looks very effective- I would definitely like to try this technique again.

Oscar Wilson inspired Calligram

The first step I took in creating my Oscar Wilson inspired Calligram was to draw the outline of my selected object-a model of the Eiffel tower- in HB pencil on A5 white paper. Once I had finished drawing the outline and basic detail of the object, I proceeded to create a list of words that relate to the Eiffel tower such as "Bonjour", "Sallut", "France", "Attraction" etc. I then used these words to fill the space within the outline of the object. I based the style of my lettering on the work of Oscar Wilson, who uses a bold typeface. The next step I took was to lay a sheet of tracing paper-secured by masking tape- over the top of my work and traced all of the words I had written but not the outline of the shape. I proceeded to scan the tracing paper into the computer and save it to my desktop. Once I had done that I opened the image-file in Adobe Photoshop and used said software to adjust the brightness and darkness of the image-so as to make sure that the background is white- and cropped the image to remove any background space. I then opened the image-file in Adobe Illustrator and "live traced" it so as to select the outlines of the image, afterwards I "live coloured" the image using a colour swatch and a fill I had then created my Calligram.

Overview of my Oscar Wilson inspired Calligram

Overview of my Oscar Wilson inspired Calligram

Photograms

Photograms inspired by the stencil work of Rob Ryan