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Letter Press Continued...

In my second session of letter press I wanted to really think into the meaning behind my work as I had already played about with how letter press actually works. I found a quote from American poet Robert Frost - "Freedom lies in being bold". I thought that this would be useful as it was short enough for me to be able to create a selection of presses. The finished work is shown below.

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Type & Tape

In a group, myself and five others were set a brief to create a typeface using only coloured duct tape. We settled around the idea that we would focus on the location of each letter rather than the letters themselves and due to this, our font is fairly basic. We chose locations where the viewer would not be able to descipher the letter form unless they stood in a certain location. I am really happy with how our project progressed. It worked really well and we created a unique typeface which applies perfectly to our brief.

Letter Press

I had my first experience using letter press today, I spend the time experimenting with the words 'freedom' and 'sequence'. I really didn't think I would enjoy something which is so unpredictable but I found that it was a fantastic for me to be able to stop trying to make my work so perfect and just try out using a medium that is more raw. I think that I create some nice work, two examples are shown below.

Poole continued...

I spent the day in Poole taking photographs of my surroundings...the instructions were pretty vague so I just experimented with architecture and typography. Once we were given the brief of an editorial illustration I thought that my pictures were spot on. It was useful to be able to use my images of the typography alongside the buildings to create something that I feel belongs in a national newspaper. We only had a week to complete this mini-brief so my outcome isn't quite finished...

Poole...

My current project brief is to produce an editorial illustration for a national newspaper for an article based on the regeneration of Poole. While researching artists for inspiration i came across Daniel Bristow, an illustrator from London, England. his work is created using simply pencils and photoshop and i think it would fit perfectly in a newspaper supplement.

http://bristow-bailey.deviantart.com

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