Typography - Word Layouts

Assignment: Choose two words from the list below. In two different compositions, arrange each word to express its meaning (one word per composition). The composition is 6 × 6 inches square. You may vary the size, spacing, placement, and orientation of the letters. You may execute your project by tracing letters, cutting and pasting photocopied letters, using a computer, or any combination of these methods. Use only the typeface Futura Bold (provided on class website). You may repeat, omit, slice, block, or overlap words or letters. Do not use drop shadows or horizontal / vertical scaling (distortion). Do not use anything but black and white letter forms: no color, extraneous shapes, lines, or imagery. Consider the entire space of the square.

Of the words provided, I decided to work with the few that really jumped out at me as actionable words. I liked addition and the T in the word quickly looked like a plus sign to me so that was easy. At first I wasn't sure if I wanted to make it a + or just leave it a t, but in the end I figured it read better that way. Also, I added symbols to the word to get its meaning across. For elimination, I immediately noticed that there were a lot of I's in that word. The dots were an interesting aspect so I worked with taking them out, leaving them half in until I got something I thought looked neat.

Assignment: Within a 6 × 6 inch square, compose the text provided below in a manner that expresses its meaning. Use only the roman, italic, and small caps of Sabon (provided on website). Vary only alignment, leading, line length, orientation, and spacing. Use no variations in weight or size. You may break the paragraph into smaller elements and distribute them within the square.

This was a harder assignment, I wasn't really sure what I was going to do with it for a while. Eventually, I just broke the paragraph up into bits and then divided the parts about handwriting from printing. Hand writing stuff I italicized and the printed stuff I left regular. Then I worked with the alignments to visually describe what the words were saying.