Typeface design
Project By: Bilal Asghar
For the final project of their Typography & Layout Course, students will be tasked with creating their own typeface. This project takes them through their entire course thus far and gives them an overview of their collective learning in Typography up until this point.
Students will design a typeface from scratch based on the design repository that they have collected (from photographing typography around the city, etc.) This project also introduces them to the basics of layout design for publication/print mediums.
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Students will first and foremost be asked to take a trip and experience all the typography that exists around the city and their immediate surroundings. Their task is to photograph everything that they find intriguing and build a type/design repository for themselves.
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Students will be asked to start sifting through their collected data and dividing their visual library based on themes/visual language, typeface etc. Their task after this will be to extract visual elements that they find intriguing and develop a typeface based on what they find intriguing.
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On the basis of the characteristics every student has the freedom to choose one theme they like and keeping in mind the traits and anatomy they are required to develop a typeface. There are a number of choices needed early on. Will it be a serif or sans-serif typeface? Will it be based on a writing implement or be more geometric? etc
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The final phase of the assignment will be using material to shape the letterform and the reflect the detail of anatomy of the final typeface they have created. Along with this a final typeface poster showing all its letters has to be presented. Students will be asked to collate their research /photography/ ideation & final typeface creation in the form of a booklet which details their entire creative process for this project.
