Normally I wouldn’t be to keen posting up exercises leading up to a project, but I really like these, so here they are!For the second project in Type 2 I’m developing a series of two posters that use two of the four accepted theories of creating relationships between type and image. The four are; Separation, Fusion, Fragmentation, and Inversion. I wont go into any kind of depth of what these are, what they mean and all their subcategories, but for those interested, in these two sets of exercises I’m using separation and fusion respectively. For the exercises the class was asked to take for words (excitement, tranquility, historical, and natural) and write a sentence about what it meant to us, then to create a design utilizing the two theories.

It’s been far too long since I’ve done some heavy lifting in photoshop so I decided to stretch my figurative legs and have some fun, I’m sure this will come across in my approach to the second set of solutions. Theres a lot of thinking and social commentary going on in those two dealing with historical distortion, and degradation of the natural world. On the other hand the first set is more pure design using a tight grid and slight re-imagining of a De-Stijl typeface by Theo Van Doesburg, to really drive home that tight square grid. In any case check it out!