lines

influenced by aron janscos imagery as he used his letters to create a piece of art and i liked the idea so i thought id give it a go.

i did it by copying over my letters and moving them around and then adding lines

quick mess about

as i was using abc
and squares triangles and circles to make up the buildings
i used secondry colours to do this real quick just to see if it would work or not with them being quite detailed shapes.

i quite like the outcome i need to experiment more and neaten stuff up

abc buildings

 keeping with my orginal idea of making an architecture alphabet ive design 3 buildings (well 2 and keep C from my fmp) i wanted to carry it on from my fmp so used the same idea, the sundial. i wanted to develop the idea but incorporate it into an alphabet. i think im going to just stick with these three letters and try doing something like the typograpghy artitsts ive looked at such as aron jansco.

peter defty

alphabet spelled out of the sky shapes around 26 Tyneside landmarks, from unique perspectives.

Peter Defty is a highly successful commercial photographer and, due to his Geordie roots, quite passionate about Tyneside. He has been gathering architectural photographs of Geordie landmarks in the shapes of letters for some years now, in preparation for this piece. This fabulous poster features beloved landmarks, including the Tyne Bridge, St James' Park, the Monument, Angel of the North and Millenium Bridge

Aron jancso - type designer

i really like how it looks like a tree whiteout the normal filling in method that you see every christmas

Caligo is a typeface based on calligraphy done with a parallel pen. It's classic and elegant with a modern twist, featuring flared serifs, lots of ligatures and swashes

Qalto flows and leaps like freestyle jazz. Suited as a strong title or headline font, the letters and ligatures are composed of very thin hairlines and very thick elements. This high contrast conveys a stunning visual effect and a unique optical rhythm. Early on, Aron Jancso realized that "some words have good rhythm and others don't," and added stylistic alternatives for every lowercase and uppercase letter. If that’s not enough, there are four different weights, so users can use different sizes with the same hairline thickness, which allows for artistic freedom in arrangement and composition.

to me it seems very 20s i like the art work that goes along with it. 

starting research

having no idea of what to do for this project i ended up thinking about doing illustration (2d work) instead of doing 3d which i was doing in fmp as i didn't want it linking and crossing over too much.

i now have decided to look into typography as its structured like architecture and look at how i can create 2d work from it but architecturally 

i quite like the idea of creating buildings from letters and decide on a group of letters and looking at how they could be made into buildings

this would mean looking into all the components that make up a letter  and even creating my own typography.

i could also look at existing architecture as see the links between architecture and typography, doing this will give me inspiration into what lines and curves i could use to create my artwork

and even just using shapes to create a font that could then be made into buildings later

Matthias Jung

http://www.archdaily.com/612699/surreal-architectural-collages-by-matthias-jung/