To go alongside with our earlier lecture, we were instructed in our seminar to design an assorted range of typefaces for any given letters; mine were S, T, and U, where I arranged them in a variety of designs.
I quite enjoyed this activity, as it allowed me to think creatively about each letter's properties and depict this; I depicted "S" in a free flowing manner due to its current design and also the property of a snake's hiss, "T" to represent its imposing sound and reinventing its look (though I was careful for it not to look like a Y), and "U" to show opposite sides of the same letter (from the angular to the curved).
After we did this, we were told to place our letters in alphabetical order; doing so allowed us to see the array of design ideas others came up for each letter, a lot of them being very inventive and creative.
Because of this activity- it allowed me to get into the mind-set of a typographer, and how each type design can reflect and change a piece of art.
