The first font style that I decided to work with within this lesson was Courier Bold. The elements that I decided to use from this font style was a part of the Number 5 and Letters P, J and U. Before I started to create my pattern, I firstly had to draw out the shapes and elements onto a A3 piece of paper that I had been given. To do this I used a pencil because I feel that if I had drawn the designs out with a fine liner I would have messed up the shape that I wanted to create for the design, I had to draw some of the shapes out very faintly to make sure that I got the basic shape of the design and elements. After I had drawn out the elements onto the sheet of the A3 paper I then had to use a craft knife to cut out the outlines of the elements that I had drawn. I found that this task was quite easy to do because I have noticed that over the past few process and productions lessons that I have had with Nick I have a steady hand which cuts around the outline of the elements very easily and carefully. Once I had cut the elements out of the A3 paper I then was able to start create a pattern on a new piece of paper. However before I started to create the pattern I decided very carefully about what I wanted to do with the design to make it look professional and bold, so that it would stand out and be easy to see by people. Although I still wanted the design to be very clean and look neat.
I then started to place the stencils into the spaces that I wanted to, after doing this I started to use the black paint in order to create a pattern using the stencils that I had created whilst using a font style. Once I had created this design I found that it looked very professional and neat, I think that the colour of the allowed the layout and the stencils to stand out and look bold. I thought about pushing this design even further by looking at creating a little animation to show the shapes changing from the original shape to something different and then returning to there final shape.
I then moved on to work with the typeface known as Baskerville Bold, I liked this font style because again I found it clean and interesting. I again took the same following steps that I had taken with the last font style, as I firstly started out by picking out elements of the typeface. I decided to be a little more interesting a choose different letters from this typeface. I found that this font style was quite easy to grasp when drawing out the elements. Before creating the pattern on the paper, I firstly had to draw out the elements that I had chosen to use on a another sheet of paper in which I could use for my stencils. After I had done this I again cut out the elements using a craft knife, I found this quite easy as I have started to get used to using a craft knife. I then started to look again at the arrangement of the elements on the sheet like the last design, as I again wanted the design to be professionally laid out and look clean and sharp. However, I also wanted it to look bold and standout so that it would interest people to have a look at the design. I like this design because I like how the paint I used gave it a washed effect that made it look vintage and different to the previous design.
The next typeface that I used within this process and production lesson was the typeface known as Cooper Std. I found that this font style was a lot more bolder and stood out a lot more than the other typefaces that we were using within this lesson. I found that this typeface was slightly harder to draw out the elements than the last two because I think the elements were a lot bolder as the style is very different to the other font styles. Once I had chosen the elements that I wanted to work with for this design, I started out by drawing out the elements using a pencil on a blank piece of paper to use as a stencil for my design. After I had drawn out each element onto the sheet of paper I was then able to start and cut around the shapes to create the stencil using a craft knife. Before starting to paint the stencil, I decided to use a different roller brush which was a slightly more fluffy and would give my design a different effect to the outcome. However after I had finished print the design using this brush I had noticed that it had made my design a lot messier than the previous two. Although I was happy with this because I felt that it was nice to create something different, bold but messier.
For the final part in this process and production lesson, we were told that we should creating something new or a letter using the three different typefaces to create a design. I decided that I wanted to create my initials using the three different font style, to create each letter. I started off by the looking at each of the same letter for all the different typefaces, because I wanted to think about how I could create this design and see how it would work. I firstly started out by drawing an element of each to create the design, using a pencil on a blank sheet of paper. After I had worked out each element to make up the letter, I was then able to put this together to create my final piece for the letter R. I was then able to cut this out using a craft knife to use as a stencil for the letter, at first I decided to print the letter at a portrait angle to see how the design would look. I thought that the design came out really well which I was happy about.
I then decided to do the same for the other two initials of my name which were the letters J and T. I again repeated the process and chose elements of each to create each letter. Before printing on the paper I had to think about arrangement of the letter, to see where I wanted to place the letter. I also had to think about how hard I did the print so that the letters would be visible and easy to see when printed on the paper. I felt that overall this design didn't look too great as I wasn't happy about how the design looked for this print.
I decided to go a little further with this design and look at creating a landscaped design using the three letters that I had just created for this design. I felt that this design worked a lot better than the portrait design because I thought that this design was a lot clearer and sharper than the other. I felt that the design was a lot bolder than the other design.
Overall, I really enjoyed this process and production lesson. This is because I again learnt new skills that I could use in the future for my future project.
