TYPE DESIGN & EXPLORATION
I absolutely love experimenting with typefaces and creating designs that challenge the convention forms of readability and understanding alphabets and numbers. This is a collection of such experiments.
UNDERSTANDING BEZIER CURVE
In this project, I had to take this fictional form of a supposed alphabet, and apply various principles of type design to it, in order to perfect the bezier curve and how it works.
The type prompt was generated on this website
EXPERIMENTING WITH READABILITY
TYPESETTING POEMS
Here, I attempted to typeset a poem, "The Paradox Man" written by me, next to a poem in Devnagri Hindi by Harivansh Rai Bachchan, "Neer Ka Nirmaan Fir Fir".
The Paradox Man is all about contrasts and paradoxes present in a man's life in the form of metaphors, whereas Neer Ka Nirmaan Fir Fir is about how the dark night transitions into a bright morning.
I decided to show this contrast and transition present in the meaning of these poems visually in the manner below, where there is sharp contrast on one end, and soft transition into the other.
DESINGING POSTCARDS FOR POETICA
Poetica is Adobe Original Original Script's first typeface made in 1992.
It is based on Chancery handwriting script during the Italian Renaissance.
Poetica formed the basis of Italian typefaces and modern calligraphy.
It has Alternate swash characters with ligatures & a very ornamental design.
I tried to highlight the connection between the font and its history with the Renaissance period and calligraphic ornamentation in these designs.
The color palette followed is that of the Renaissance period.
BOOK DESIGN
The most RACIST SEXIST MISOGYNISTIC way of looking at NUMBERS
UNCONVENTIONAL IDEAS AND SELF INTROSPECTION
I worked on a book design project taking the learnings of typography forward. It is a book on numbers, and how I have seen these abstract forms/shapes growing up, and the colors I associate with each of them. How the form or the enunciation of a number create a perception of an identity for itself—based on our own preconceived notions and stereotypes.
It stems from some very novel childhood habits, stereotypes, and notion that I had developed at an early age.
In my understanding, I was able to give these personalities, colors, genders and pronouns to these numbers because they stemmed from my own beliefs deep down as they were formed in my early childhood. For example, How 2 is a girl solely because of the curves, and how I associated curves to feminity as a child. The yellow probably came to be associated with 2 because of the fridge magnets I had as a kid of numbers, and 2 was always yellow in color.
For the cover, I vectorized my own handwriting to make it more personal.
Making this book helped me bring back some memories which were otherwise buried away, and typographic expression helped me enhance these concepts visually for the audience to perceive.
