Found Typography Exhibit Banners

The banners tell the story of the development of my font. How I picked it up from the streets, formalized it, and made it into strong graphic elements which can be used as a font. The same story is depicted in the poster too.

Bindu Font

FOUND TYPOGRAPHY

I am reposting this since I've heard it's not opening on a lot of computers.

FOUND TYPOGRAPHY

My inspiration for this project came from the bindi, a decorative piece worn by many women in India. Although they come in many ornate patterns and colours, the most common is a simple maroon dot on the woman’s forehead.

As I developed the concept I looked at the work of S.H. Raza a much celebrated Indian artist who primary subject is the bindu, using it as a symbol for a point or source of energy.

I took various elements from Mr Raza’s work as I began with the font, but the final font has arrived closer to how I saw the font than Mr Raza’s work, yet to pay homage the artist in have called my font BINDU.

S.H. Raza

Some of his work

Visual journal

Here are a few bits from my visual journal. I'll be uploading the rest in a few days. I doubt you'll be able to read my handwriting though.

Great stuff!

I'm viewing some great work here... keep it up! Why not add more dialogue about the experiences you have had on your exchange-I'd love to know all about it.....and with photos too.

Remix

I had got Gillian's illustration(BELOW). Using the same elements which were there in that illustration I created a new illustration depicting Global Warming.
The under construction building depicts a thermometer which is growing. The crane has a oil pipe which is helping the thermometer to build up. (Fossil fuel is one of the biggest contributors for the rise of global temperature ) . The bulldozer represents the green activists who are trying to destroy the building i.e to STOP GLOBAL WARMING.
The illustration technique also highlights the mechanization and the heavy industrialization of our environment.

Created by Fern based on Blair's Illustration

REMIX

For the vector illustration project I was given the illustration

above made by Fern. Based on the theme Revolution, I

brainstormed some concepts for the illustration, for the final

illustration (below) I took a humorous look at human and

robot kind.

Heehee

sorry about the really long post, not used to the site.

JUICE

P.S My font is called JUICE

Found Typography

Hello everyone

Sorry for the late post.

Unlike the other students I chose to take an existing piece of typographic example and create a font out of it. The photograph I have selected is a common banner you see in the local juice shops of Delhi. These banners are made by local painters and have a strong vernacular taste. I wanted to formalize this into a strong, practical and useful font which can be easily read and used.

There are two variations of the font.Hope you like it.

Do write in your feedback.

Cheers

Hitesh

FINAL DAY IN SCOTLAND!!!

Its been an incredible journey from our Pearl academy campus in New Delhi to the Adam Smith college campuses in glenrothes and kirkcaldy...

Our tutors and fellow students here have made it an experience of a life time.

It has helped us to get matured as designers ,hearing different views and ideas than our own.

one thing that has come out most from every thing we have experienced here personally is the helpfulness of the people and the passion for design.

a few things that i noticed and will remember ,while studying here ,were:

• exceptional typography from hoardings to visiting cards. (gone berserk clicking photos!)
• the greenery ...awesome landscape of this country.
• the detailing in everything possible.

i would like to thank everyone who has made this exchange to scotland possible , our faculty specially for their support.

p.s. i will be coming here again for sure!

Ankit

Another India

Still waiting after all these weeks...

Fonts from Tony and Gillian. Come in Tony and Gillian....

My font.

Ok first are my 20 pictures. These are of the Taj Mahal and the Amber fort's wall decorations which were absolutely beautiful and had alot of different shapes. It is these shapes that i decided to base my font off. Can i also say a big thankyou to everyone who made this trip possible as i have had an amazing time!

Last day

Well it's the last day! Don't have much else to say at the moment, I'm keeping some stuff for stories when we return!!

I'd just like to thank everyone who made this trip possible. It's been a fantastic opportunity, one which I hope to have made the most of! I feel like I have done everything I can to immerse myself in the expierience as much as I could! I hope we have left a good impression on both the students and staff here, and that with this added sense of perspective on the world my work can improve.

As I said previously I think the whole thing is going to take some time to proccess and no doubt I'll still be in Delhi mode for some time after we come home! Thanks again to everyone at both Adam Smith and Pearl who made it possible. I'll never forget it.

A little reminder

Hi world travellers,

Blair, Tony and Robbie - Thanks for emailing your fonts for monday's deadline - the class were really intrigued to see what you've been up to and gave positive feedback.....Tony maybe you could upload yours to the blog??!!! Lauren and Gillian - I live in hope...............

Incidentally have any of Pearl's exchange students (or otherwise) been working on this project too? Because when they come to Scotland we will be completing it (producing posters and banners) so if they haven't could you guys pass the message on.

Enjoy the remainder of your stay and I'll see you soon. The class is quiet and lonely without you all!!!!

Oh! It's never enough!

Looking forward to seeing fonts (and indeed more found typo) from Lauren, Tony and Gillian.....

Blair's Putt-Putt font

Good weekend

Still enjoying myself out here! Had a very relaxing weekend in comparison to the previous one! Highlights for me included: Ordering a tailored suit for $30, can't beat that! Ti food, strangely enough! Probably the most disappointing thing about this trip is the food! Indian food is without a doubt my favourite back home, here I tend to avoid it..... Go figure! Some students took us out on Sunday which turned out a really good day. Spent the morning seeing a few temples etc then spent the reminder gorging on food and beer! I was desperate to see the Manchester derby (the football) so one of the guys kindly took us back to his place so we, or I as it turned out, could watch it! 4-3 to the mighty reds and a fantastic match to boot! Can't be bad. Hard Rock was a nice experience, ordered a cheeseburger! I don't know whether it was just my paranoia but the burger just tasted like wet sponge. Not good, the chips were fine though!!

Did some filming today out in the blaring sunshine, never been so uncomfortable! I have been feeling a bit off the last couple of days so it wasn't a great experience for me. I did enjoy the filming parts and learning new things however, I was glad to jump into the air conditioned taxi at the end of the day.

Not long left now, not sure how the whole expierience is going to effect me! It's going to take me months to proccess I think.

hey everyone

hey everyone back home just thought to put something up on here since ive not put anything up yet.here in india it is going ok.its so hot here at the momment.but the whole experience has been quite alright weve had some ups and downs while we have been here.wewere out filming in town today just getting to grips with a film camera and just playing about lol.some of the things that we have seen are unbelieveable like cows in the middle of th road ,traffic thats eight lanes across on a four lane road and seeing people slepping by the road and many other things as well.
so see you all next week
TATA for now.

Our last weekend.

Ok time to do this again... first time i did this it deleted itself. See this is why i stay away from posting on websites i've only just joined.

Right so it was a relaxing weekend, complete opposite from our Jaipur, Agra, traffic jam experience.

Saturday - Exhausted from Friday's class which was full of people shouting at people who were trying to do their presentations (five ten minute presentations took nearly two hours to do), we put our washing into the dry cleaners and will have it back today. Gillian, Blair, Tony and I decided to explore our local area (while Robbie explored Middle-Earth) starting with the yoga park (no yoga on that day though but a couple of annoying street children just holding their hands out saying "Please") then we found a cake shop with Hindi Schweppes and Coca-cola cans and ended up at a fabric shop where they do suit making. Blair chose out some nice material and is gettng his suit made for thirty pounds! After coffee and cake in our favourite coffee shop Robbie also decided to get a suit made and Tony is gettign a shirt. Gillian and I went back to the guest house. After what felt like a few hours the guys returned stating that they had been driven to a different tailors as the original one had charged too much money and done the wrong measurements. We ate at Rice Bowl, good Thai food and big portions so we all had full bellies yay!

Sunday - Some of the Pearl students took us on a tour of Delhi. The plan was: See the Lotus Temple, see some other landmarks and do some shopping at market type places.
The reality was this: we went to one temple that Sihks use and we had to take our shoes and socks off before even getting to the entrance and we weren't allowed to go in without something covering our heads. It was a surreal experience and i spied some people taking our photo on their mobile phone and a couple of guys actually laughed at us... They were looking at me by the look of it. This was probably because none of us had a clue what was going on atall.
We saw the outside of the Lotus Temple from the road alongside it as it was closed! Typical. Still it looked stunning enough from our limited view, it is a shame we did not get to see more of it.

The students then took us to a big hotel complex which had a sort of mall where we went ot a cricket themed bar with the gloves for some of the seats and some of the small charis were basically single giant cricket balls! They also made thier own beer although since i am not a beer fan i sat there with a coke. Nice place, pity i hate cricket. The shop we looked at in there was just like all the other shops we've been to so far so we didn't buy anything. We went to Thai restuarant for lunch which was better than Rice Bowl.
After that place we went to a sort of fun park with go-karting and pool/bowling etc so some of the students played pool. I declined as my stomach was playing unfair painful games with me.

For dinner we went to the Hard Rock Cafe which i thought was better than the one in London due to the fact i got my meal nice and hot! We left in such a good mood and our bellies filled with delicious food. Apart from Robbie he had only two bites of his. We also used out design talents to make a face out of the remains of his meal.

We also carved a face into an apple and named him Jay. Unfortunatly he was lost during the day. A few more Jays have been created since and many shots and phots to remember them by.

Monday - Due to a national holiday marking the end of the fast for Muslims college was closed. So we done absolutely nothing. The previous day being extremely hot so we were exhausted. Robbie again went to Middle-Earth and the rest of us found other ways to entertain ourselves.

So that was our weekend.

stencil font

heres a new piece from a street install i was involved in up north for re-imagining the centre arts festival in inverness

street font

ear phones

Poloroid font

Some Scottish foundlings

mmmmmmmmmm bacon.

well your into your final week of the new dehli welly experience and hopefully your all doing well. gillian i hope your feeling a bit better and a little brighter. just thought you might like a little sneak preview of what's available for your consumption immediately upon landing back in the uk. see you all soon.

Road to.........