Principle 1: Draw By Hand
Drawing is key to any visual communicators design process. It engages a connection between hand and eye and maximises the use of our creative "right side brain" which i will write about for Principle 2.
In this instance i am trying to formulate some ideas for the magazine project in which i am thinking about imagery and text to contribute.
I am playing about with the structure of text and how letterforms can be morphed to be less distinguishable.
This ties into our magazine project as we are going to look at Hidden parts of Birmingham for our theme and i would like to make the words hide within their own structure.
I wanted to try and create some hand drawn texts that are not so easily read and look more like an arrangement of structured lines and shapes.
The intention of these drawings would be so that the viewer is not reading, yet "looking at" the text as shapes and lines before discovering the hidden text to finally distinguish as something to read.
Some examples of this work exist in a lot of Graffiti style typography, with wildstyle letter fonts that play about with the structure and positioning of letterforms.
I thought i would look at some Graffiti writers to start. I suppose i could scoure the world to show some internationally recognised graffiti writers like Marc Ecko or SKEME. However, as good as their work is i thought id look at someone a bit more local to me, a bit more local to Birmingham.
This guy goes by the name of Hoakser and is recognised in Birmingham on a more illusive scale.
Hoakser: Graffiti Vs Art (Link for Hoakser exhibition video)
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| Hoakser Spray Can Mural Back of Kings Heath Church |