Type Studies

I began to play with the formal elements of letterforms and consider how the surface of the letter itself can be interrupted/ruptured by another letterform. These were purely formal studies that I later played with animating.




























































CREATING AN ALPHABET


All my initial studies were about exploring possibilities for type as the character of this story. I knew I wanted to experiment with filming type in a room (something I had never done before). I first created three variations on an alphabet that I then printed onto acetate, lit, and filmed. For this stage in my investigations – I worked only with the words of the title of the story – in order to keep the scale of the narrative under control and allow me to test formal possibilities for type without yet worrying too much about content.