#letter forms

Reading “The Rising Gorge” by S.J.Perelman last night. I’ll admit to only buying it for the fine cover illustration by the wonderful Ben Shahn but, after hearing Dylan Moran liked Perelman’s writing, I thought I’d give it a crack. There’s some lovely wordplay (I can see why Moran reads him) but I’m not yet captivated by what I’ve read so far. The 1961 edition is a beautifully bound and designed book in and of itself. Deckled page edges, cloth spine with two colour text and an interesting choice of typefaces... so much so that I doodled some of the characters (the paper was far too eager to bleed my fountain pen though!).

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Acrylic on a prepared ground

Acrylic letter forms experiment

The letter forms that create this image work together in a positive-negative way to make the viewer look for more than what is first seen. In other words the first look is not always the last look. I offer designs that intrigue and communicate. In branding imagery and simple icon logos the idea is to get a message across. The message here seems to be a simple statement of cat, dog or is it dog, cat? The idea is that the dominant thought is left to the viewer.

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The last image was meant to represent blue and orange however the colours that I had used translated a little differently on to the paper. The orange comes off as more vermillion in shape and the blue is more teal which tips the scale and makes the painting a mix up between red and green or blue and orange.

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