#handwritten type

Zine Progress

I’m showing off a few pages for now, but I will post the entire thing on Tumblr near due date.

Okay so this wasn’t actually what the zine originally looked like. I had all the illustrations setup and applied to digital elements… And it wasn’t good. I was in a slump and pretty frustrated why I couldn’t figure out what I need to do to make this at least somewhat interesting.

I sent it over to Ben and his feedback allowed me to realise why it wasn’t working. He said hand draw some more elements but I knew doing some more just to make it barely functional wasn’t going to cut it. So I hand drew every single element for my zine.

I knew the body text was going to take a million years to hand draw and I only had less than a week. To solve this I traced over body text prints in Neuzeit Grotesk. I couldn’t really get my hands on CBS Bodoni (the font used in all my questions and titles) so I drew that by eye with the Character glyphs for reference.

I like how it turned out into an organic piece, I was tempted to use colour but my constraint was to use only Black and White to reflect the grayscale visuals of television in the 50s and the era the CBS logo was created in.

Some of the drawings were based on Shaker drawings, the shaker drawings featured above were some of the references I used for inspiration.

I’m quite satisfied with the results for my CBS Logo zine. Pretty sad I killed a pen to get it done but I’ll never forget our journey :*)

Rest In Peace, Mitsubishi UB-157 pen no. 4 of 8. May your soul live on in pen no. 5 of 8. God Bless.

First class of Comm Design Studies went by real fast. Being assigned to make your name with a bunch of random stuff in your pocket was something I remember doing in year 10 viscomm class. But going through the entire alphabet and numbers 0-9 was pushing what we all had in our backpacks. Everyone was pretty satisfied with the result, too bad we packed up early and never to got show the rest of the class our magnificent number 9.

The whole idea of the project was to get a feel for letter forms in strange shapes, this trains our perception for when we’re finding letters that are to be used in the question assignment. Furthermore, I also got an understanding on how much creative freedom we have if we decide to construct the letters from objects, if that’s how I’m going to approach the project.