Second Phase
First Phase
Here is my first experiments with three-dimensional typography. I hand built these letterforms out of balsa wood trying to see what kind of results I can get by building letterforms on top of eachother.Questions to investigate:
1)How can I create two letterforms in one?
2)How can I create a serifed typeface out of a sans serif typeface using dimension and light?
3)How can I combined anamorphic type with three-dimensional type to create new meaning?
4)What happens when you non-objectively build a three-dimension letterform?
5)How can I create a three-dimensional letterform turn anamorphic?
6)What happens when you paint diffferent shades of black onto the letterform to delineate shape onto a 3-d letterform and photograph it?
7)How does material influence a 3-D letterform?
8)How can a single letter form become a word by the material used?
more to come....
1 comment:
ryan,
you are asking some interesting questions of this subject matter and i wonder where these initial studies might take you.
based on the images shown, it looks like you're working towards the "two letterforms in one" issue, and the "non-objective letterform" issue (?) i'm seeing an E and F in some of these, and others are only hinting at those letters. the more ambiguous ones are kind of interesting, especially if you see them alongside other vague references to letters. people may see it as sculpture at first, then read it as a word. could be interesting to only hint at the letters rather than reproduce them faithfully, which is what many other people are trying in this area.
the trick is to see what has been done before, which constitutes a base of knowledge and form, then strike out with your questions into new territory. even if it's only a step into that territory, it's something. i think you have that step already, but now keep on moving. keep making and thinking about what you've made.
photographing can reveal things you may not have intended when building, so be thorough with the camera and the lighting+angles. you may make new discoveries there too.
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