Based on influential artists Alexander Calder and Bruno Munari, I was inspired to explore a more methodological and constructivist approach towards type and lettrines.
First in a purely aesthetical way, using a black ink pen and markers afterwhich I used a bamboo brush to put water over the whole.
First in a purely aesthetical way, using a black ink pen and markers afterwhich I used a bamboo brush to put water over the whole.
As I was testing the technique I drew a "B", forgetting I should have drawn one of my three letters.
The effect was quite interesting and the drawing/wetting process reminded a bit of the improvisational aspect of Jazz music. Even in my the last lettrines I was experimenting a bit with knowing where I needed to end up, but not necessarily knowing how I was going to get there. It became a visceral activity that I enjoyed quite a bit.
Surprisingly, as I looked through a blog called boingboing, there was a post focusing on Jazz/bluegrass/blues music and one of the videos posted was that of the painter and sculptor Joan Miró and jazz composer Duke Ellington meeting for the first time for an improvised jazz session
For the following experiments I was inspired by the rubber mat of the stm public transport buses. It is a grid of rubber bumps and by the end of the night people's shoesteps covered some of them with dirt and water creating shapes. With this in mind, I drew a grid of dots in markers and used my bamboo brush again with water, drawing out various letters. The effect was eye-catching.
Such as Bruno Munari had created a type toy that allowed children to create letters by using a simple number of shapes, the Dainippon Type Organization created a type toy in 2006, which was also a set of shapes that could be put together into words which then the same shapes could be put together in a different way to create the Japanese character of that same word.
Such as Bruno Munari had created a type toy that allowed children to create letters by using a simple number of shapes, the Dainippon Type Organization created a type toy in 2006, which was also a set of shapes that could be put together into words which then the same shapes could be put together in a different way to create the Japanese character of that same word.
Inspired by this puzzle type, for my second approach I cut out pieces of paper in shapes that reminded me of Alexander Calder's sculptures and assembled them together to form type and lettrines
With these same pieces I decided to test them out as an animation, which is not a finsihed product at all, but is aimed to be viewed as a "sketch".
Lastly, these are the original sketches of the Alexander Calder and Bruno Munari inspired lettrines.
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