Basteieieiei…

At least I have a direction / concept now. Feedback welcome 🙂

Bastei Restart

After not getting anywhere with my first couple of tries and constantly being critiqued by my teacher for approaching this thing the wrong way, I decided to start over. This time actually sketching first. Et voila, the first (second) ones – not much, I know – but hey, Peter gave me more feedback on those than on all my other stuff before that.

Calligraphy Ain’t Easy

Still a long way to go, but I’m getting there 😀

Bastei Font III

Continuing. Teacher didn’t say much. I should try more combinations of round and edgy, look at the old classic Blackletter Fonts. And create more individual letters instead of ‘series’.

Demonstration Manual – Logo

Ok, the name is more or less final. Maybe I’ll do something with the four names on the far right of the first picture, but I’m not sure yet. The logo’s really giving me hard time. Don’t know if I should use just type, something like with the spilt white over the type or something completely different, like a real logo with little or no type at all (for example a tipped over milk carton). Suggestions, comments, help! Please…

Bastei Font II

An update on the Font Design. After some talks with my teacher, we decided it’s best I start from scratch again as I hadn’t really sketched different designs in the beginning but just ‘drawn’ a more or less final style of letters. So here we go: the letters I was supposed to start out with – a, b, d, e, n, p. Tried out different things, not sure yet which direction exactly it’s going to be headin’. I’ve circled my favorites with a light pencil line, hope you can see it.

Demonstration Manual – Name

Ok, the Business Cards are on hold right now. The course is actually already over but will restart in April. If nothing happens I’m not going to continue working on it until then but spend all my time on this new big project ‘Demonstration Manual’. Besides Type Design it’s going to be the only thing that I’ll be working on until the end of March. The Brief: design a manual for a demonstration of your choice (for or against anything we want) including name, slogan, chant, the demonstration itself, banners, posters, other means of advertising, floats, information stands and a website. Most important thing though is the actual printed manual on how the demonstration should be executed. The manual should be for the demonstrators, the public as well as the city council.

My manual in particular isn’t gonna be for the city council as it is supposed to be more of an underground, half-illegal, rebellious group that develops and executes different kind of ‘alternative’ demonstrations depending on the purpose and client. So this group isn’t really for or against a specific thing but just tries to come up with creative solutions for demonstrations. Some of the keywords here are: provocation, agitation, humor, ridicule, confusion and shock. Combined with elements of surprise, civil disobedience, organized chaos and even a bit of vandalism. I’ll let you know what my first ideas for demonstrations sometimes later. So far it’s only about the name for the organization (see above).

I already presented the ideas today, got some feedback and also have some favorites. But yet again, second opinions would be nice. Also my prof suggested another direction I could go with the name, so these might not stay the only choices 🙂

Business Cards II

Continuing with new ideas. Tried progressing on the ones with crossed out square, but stopped after three variations. Then two small ideas. Finally one big one to make a series of handmade business cards, each one individual – I hope the concept is obvious. The teacher really liked the idea, just said that I should probably not do the type by hand, as it makes the whole thing look a bit cheap. Should more go into the direction of serious cards (with serious type, something serif-ish) that are printed as single editions and ‘pimped ‘afterwards. What do you guys think?

Some General Stuff

Ok, for everyone who’s new here – and I hope that’ll be a lot in the future – the layout of this Blog doesn’t support showing the authors names in the post. So we would never see, who wrote which post. To solve that I thought,  everyone could tag their posts with their nickname, so we don’t get confused. I also put an authors list in the right column, so you can check on each writers posts. But you’ll only appear there when you’ve written your first post.

Another thing: the big columns width is 490 px – would be nice if everyone could make their preview pics that size, or if there’s more than one, make them all fit nect to each other. Not a must, just a suggestion to make the site a little more clean cut and calm.

Cheerio!

Bastei Font

First rough sketches.