Study Task 03

For this task we had to create a way finding system that was suitable for a hospital using black letter as our influence.  To start generating ideas I used drawing ink and a paintbrush as a medium of creating multiple different styles of arrows quickly and fluidly. The characteristics of black letter are that it is script and the strokes of it are angled and the terminals of each of the letters are usually cut off in an angle.









I then tried to create some of the angles and strokes I had found in the letters as I thought they would make a good base and would be easy to work with when trying to create pictograms and arrows from these. I used a combination of thick and thin strokes to represent black letter and its key element.

A thicker brush is used here to create more abstract lines and terminals, I found this method more enjoyable as it wasn't as controlling or restricting .

Me and Jasmine then went on to recreate similar marks to these on perspex using printing ink and pieces of card and wood to spread it. This method was much more enjoyable and fluid as the ink glided nicely along the plastic

We then placed a piece of paper over this and pressed over it with a roller to print it. Where there was too much ink applied it splattered across the page and created these black blobs on the page. Some of them look a bit like figures and the blobs represent the heads     

We then did the inverse of this and covered the perspex in ink and carved into it with the same tools. This visually created a bigger impact than the other technique as it was easier to see where the marks were. The strokes also became more angular as the ink seemed to drag the tools more

 The curve on this board remind me of something you would see on a Muller Brockmann poster. I like how all of the marks are all made up of individual lines which wasn't intentional it was just the way the ink was scraped off.

Here is the end result, as you can see some of the letter that were already printed on the perspex have come through on the print however I think some of the curves of the letters play off nicely against the straight angular lines of the marks made.

Figures created using the images I scanned into illustrator and made vectors of, I think they work well as figures as they are very abstract but also work in the features of black letter. 

Here is a mark I made which in reflection I realised looks like a t therefore I thought this would work well as a pictogram for telephone.

This is a combinations of marks I made which I think work well as a cafeteria pictogram as it slightly looks like a knife and fork

This is a very abstract pictogram for exit, I chose to try create something that represents an E to symbolise exit