6 October 2011

Personal Alphabet Initial Ideas

For the second part of our alphabet soup task, we have been asked to create an alphabet that reflects the personality of another individual in our group.
The magic randomiser did it's business again, and it gave me Ste, who is lovely, and far cooler than me.

We got a set of questions to ask each other, including...
When were you happiest? (When I got my first car)
What Is Your Greatest Fear? (Burning Alive)
Which Living Person do you Most Admire? (Mark Machado - tattooist)
What is your most treasured possession? (Xbox 360)
If you could bring something back to life, what would it be? (Tupac)
How Wold you like to be Remembered after you're gone? (As a genuine person)

I also asked him a few other questions, about the style of tattoos he prefers (old school), his favourite colour (blue) and the kind of typefaces he already likes (simple). 

From these questions, we then had to take 5 words that we thought summed up our partner, and I came up with
Driving
Simple (not in an idiot kind of way)
Old School Tattoos
Urban
Genuine.

Then from their we had to come up with 5 more words relating to each word we'd already taken, and after that we started to create some initial ideas that took two words from our long long list, and create a design that related to them.

This is what I came up with...
I think that the first 2 sets of words worked well together, but I ran out of ideas for the final pair of words. I really like the idea of contrasting something simple such as a Helvetica style font, with something quite classic and decorative inside the typeface.

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