Retrospect / Letterwork: Final Renderings

So these are the final hand rendered typographic compositions from first year typography subject "Visible Language":

Black cut paper on white.

Hand inked + coloured

In terms of rendering techniques, the cut paper technique is more successful as the edges are more sharp and smooth. The second was a killer because I had to carefully lightly mark out the letters in pencil, then carefully ink in the letters and of course filled some colour with the yellow. This caused some smudges and uneven application of yellow - so the end result looked less refine. For something like this cut paper all the way (as painstaking as it can be)!

Retrospect / VC Technology: Visible language - Letterwork

One of the very first projects we had to do for Typography was a project called "Letterwork". We were each given an A3 page with a specific font in which we had to (as far as memory serves me) identify its category and briefly analyse its features then using our page of letters to come up with a bunch of compositions using the design principle of "similarity" and "difference". Then we chose two and hand render it into a 20 cm x 20 cm final. I loved how this project was all about composition making, balance, and play - no conceptual brain squeezing yet.