Type Face Design
The design brief consisted of small groups researching, developing and creating a type face design using only tape in one day. My group and I first started research from different type face books in the library, we found interesting fonts such as "
wood" in
Rookledges international typefinder, which later helped us in our design.
The key factor in the design of our type face was the visit to a local skate park. We arrived to find a run down, graffiti covered skate park. There was burnt wooden fences, graffitied skate bowls and ramps; to me it was a type of authority stamp from the day to day users. In the skate park we then as a group discussed possible names for our type face. The vibe and feeling the park gave off was run down, bleak and vandalized. It was also the location of the skate park, it was on the edge of a run down estate.
After gathering research, photos and ideas from the skate park we went back to AIB, and as a group came up with a number of sketches and ideas to include in our type face. The main agreements of our type face where to have the characters all lining, the signature jagged parts upon each character and also the type face name, which is "DEKLINE". A final type was then created; the group then agreed on exhibiting the type face on the burnt wooden fence in the skate park. There was only time to create the word DEKLINE in our type face due to the time limit within the brief.
After much research and dispute, we finally went back to the skate park to create out type face in black tape. This time round the skate park had about 6 BMX riders jumping off ramps, smoking and drinking lager. This put more of a street/urban feel to creating the type face, and we were able to capture some excellent images.
