Type and Tape

We were set the task of designing a typeface made only of tape in groups. We had an array of different of tapes at our disposal in order to fulfil the brief and had to consort with the group on how we could best use these materials. It turned out our group had alot of good ideas and it proved difficult to chose one at the expense of the others so we ended up chosing a typeface consisting of a selection of our ideas, with a different type used for each letter. After considering how this would look, we decided to use white tape to create a joined up outline in order make the typeface look more unified, without it, it may have looked mismatched and chaotic. We named it 'Coalesce' meaning 'to bring together', befitting the concept behind it.


Final typeface

Without white joining line

Me sticking up my letter

Another one of our day tasks was to create an illustration solely out of coloured paper. I decided to work around the theme of creating a sense of place about Poole, so that the piece was relevant to our other task of creating editorial illustrations which visually describe Poole. I used a black background cut, meticulously, in the shape of cranes (which dominate poole quay's skyline) on which I stuck a paper image of the 'boat trips' booth along the seafront as these two images signify the two things which characterise Poole- Tourism and Industry. Given more time I could have easily improved the image, the fiddly cutting of the details of the crane took alot longer than I anticipated and left very little time for the other elements.