Simple Lines and Relationships

I wanted to take a well known font and mess it up.  One of the standard fonts that is used in nearly every modern design template for western characters is Helvetica.  I used to work with this font in very standard way with proper spacing and margins to so it can be used in many digital platforms.  I personally like the Gotham thin style but I didn't have the file on-hand.

messing with transform tools

an interesting replacement for the "raspberry" symbol by only changing source font file

After becoming familiar with the basic transform tools I wanted to intergrete these path tools into a composition.

I really liked this "i", it took me a few tries to work more elements into the code to get a more desired result

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Coding isn't my strong suit but I wanted to make a composition that had a shared source, same characters, but some were altered to be illegible.  The end results came closer to concrete poetry.

captured that "untitled Tooltip"  but lets say it was intentional

I evoke the feeling of motion was my idea by stretching the x-coordinates in areas.  It would have been cool to use the word "rain" but due to the weird way i glued to code together it ran the array per character.  4 letter words did not look as good as 3 letter words.

/joes-bizzare.ipynb#

I named this post bizzare because I took a different approach to this assignment.  This is inspired from the readings a few weeks ago that showcased the intuitive ways writing was integrated with technology. 

Physicality of the process. 

When I write, traditionally, there is a feeling of elegance and simplicity that makes everything fluid.  I wanted to reflect that in whatever my output was.  I also wanted to introduce ideas and concepts that I could further explore as the course progresses.

adding multiple generated glyphs to create one character

reducing the space between them to make them one object

same thing but curvy

My "signature" series:

I wanted to created the sense of self.  When you used to sign for everything a signature naturally develops.  I thought this reflected a lot of personality.

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Now the stuff below reminded my of a child scribbling on a notebook.  That's a form of communication not even the child understands.  Pure subconscious.

I took the grid layout and saturated the values till they bled all over each other.


This next one was fun:

Created simple lines, a large blank cell bellow and hit the refresh button for the next frame.  It's a python animation! 

Lot's of fun–

JB