A few more type ideas...

Amarilis Typeface

Typeface design by Diego Sanz Salas. I love the patterns translated to onto these letterforms. While they are floral they are not overly feminine and the colour choices give them a south american feel - perhaps remeniscent of the designers Peruvian origins. The colours and slightly geometric remind me of moasic tiles.

Michal Sycz - Various work

These are various pieces by Michal Sycz. He works with 3d design a lot - both digital and crafted. I think that the way that he uses layers works well to bring the type into the 3rd dimension - and then back to 2d when translated across to print.

Free Soul

Lucy Molnar - Free Soul type design - I like the geometric elements that make up this design and I think could translate well across a 3d layered design like the one I have in mind for Fedrigoni.

Garito Cafe custom type

This typeface was designed for a popular club in Mallorca by Vicente García Morillo.....

I also like the way that it is photographed - in the sand. It adds an interesting context to the design that is slightly unrealistic but more interesting than simply photographing it in someones hand! I don't think that it necessarily works as well as it could, but it has made me think about how I would photograph the text and how it would make it more relevant or interesting.

'Holt' type design

Typeface design by Stella Björg - this reminds me of an idea I had last year when I was going to design a typeface base on wild flowers, before settling on another theme for my type design project. I think that this is absolutely beautiful - and though extremely delicate, I think that this could be adapted into a three dimensional paper design.

Numbers for Con Artist

I absolutely love these numbers created by Anjo Bolarda. I think that a style like this would work really well as a 3d paper type design.

Typeface exploration

These are some typefaces that I have been looking at for inspiration for 3d type. I think that these highly decorative typefaces explain the aesthetic that I want to achieve.
(fonts sourced from MyFonts.com)

Akiko Stehrenberger

I really like these two posters by Akiko Stehrenberger. I think that they are good examples of how illustration and bespoke type can work so well together. This is the style of illustration I want to use as a starting point for my Fedrigoni brief - and then bring into the third dimension using paper engineering.

Surface pattern live brief ideas

Ideas for Louise Tiler logo....

I have been looking at other interior designers logos as well as calligraphic letter forms - as this was something that Louise actually mentioned as an aesthetic guideline. I think that she likes the classical and decorative look of script font but needs the legibility impact of a less elaborate font.

Happycentro - Creative typography

Happycentro is an italian creative studio based in Verona. Born in 1998 by Federico Galvani, Roberto Solieri, Giulio Grigollo, Andrea Manzati and the photographer Federico Padovani. Their projects go from creative typography, to art direction and video making for clients such as Nike Italy, Sony Ericcson and important italian magazines and newspapers.
I am interested in the 3d element of their work. I really want to experiment with 3d type through the Fedrigoni brief.

Trip to Saltaire

I went to Saltaire yesterday - partly for a break from the city for a couple of hours and partly to see the Hockney gallery again as I haven't been this year. Typically I spent more time in the amazing shop than anywhere else photographing things that I can't afford to buy and things that I just liked.

I absolutely love this typographic book cover. I think that the ribbon works really well as a guide - directing your eye down the cover.

A lot of the work I looked at will be really helpful for my research for both my type brief and my Fedrigoni brief....

I plan to make my own christmas cards this year and these designs I especially like. I plan to screen print my cards - partly to keep costs as low as possible but also for the aesthetic of hand made. What I particularly like about these cards are the colour choices - especially the orange and blue snowman and the green and pink/red ones. I like that they are slightly less obviously festive colours such as red green gold etc. 

Massive sandwich I ate later that day.....

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