Evaluation; Alphabet Soup: Visual Thinking

My thoughts on the process of the Brief?

I started looking at the melting of food and materials such as plastic and metal. As I researched more into the word i realised there wasn't a lot of diversity, the way in which something melts is the same for almost any material. I started to look at Molten Lava and the way in wich it over laps and leaves big blobs of cooling lava behind, and also created an interested pattern. I liked how my letters were unstructured so i could create whatever melted pattern i wanted around a letter, although i wasnt aloud to lose to much form for it then to become just a messy blob. I thought visually my final outcome was really good, i'd worked on capturing the right flow of the blobs so it all conjoined and looked neat and professional.

The concept behind creating the letters was pretty simple, once i had mastered how to draw melting droplets. The thing which was hard was trying to make it look different to any other slimy font. I believe i took it from an angle which was quite contemporary and not to cliché.

What Worked and What Didn't?

I believe using tracing paper and the light box to get my designed type onto the paper i wanted was a really fast technique, rather than drawing straight from hand! And also talking to me peers for ideas which may inspire me was a good way to get started.

I believe one thing which didn't go so well was the initial start, looking for the research. It was easy enough finding a picture of food or a material which had melted, but it was hard to get the right shapes in which i could immitate to show the speed of the liquidified material dripping down the edge of the letters. I settled on picking out similar ways and forms in which the food or material would drip down a plate of food, then sketching this onto a traced letter.

What woukd you do next time?

From getting ideas from other students with the same word i think i'd incorporate illustration into my letters. One girl had drawn a lot of her letters as a 3D object actually melting, and drawn food to show one way in which something could melt. I think i focused to much on keeping the form of the letter at a readable level than actually represting the form of melting.