Before considering the concept for my Design Publication, it was important to evaluating my Design Practice, considering how I work:
My Design Practice
My practice focusses mainly on type design, but is there a specific way I work within that?
Madison — Based on display type of 1960's advertising.
COP Essay — Looking at how type design has changed since the digital revolution.
COP Practical — The revival of a some Victorian characters, creating a full typefaces.
With these projects as an example, it seems my love of type design begins with historic examples. This 'revivalist' approach is taken by most type designers, most famously is Jonathon Hoefler.
Concept Development
A publication based around the revivalist approach to creating typefaces.
How can this be shown?
The best way is through examples in use.
- Examples of existing typefaces that use this approach.
How can it be expressed as a methodology?
- The revivalist approach is a broad method in which typefaces can be created.
Finalised Concept / Content Ideas for Book
Lost Letterforms is a large format, coffee table publication based around the subject matter of typeface revivial.
The publication itself will be designed only in revivalist typefaces, one of which I will develop myself.
The content itself is based around pre-digital publications sourced. These books are honoured within the publication, with selected letterforms digitalised. These letterforms are used as a base for a typeface, with characteristics and precise measurements taken. These details can be used to create the rest of a consistant typeface in the future.
Another aim of the publication is to recontextualise these letters, taking them out of a place in history, and honour for their shape and form.
