Design Skills - Alphabet Soup - Typeface

Design Skills - Alphabet Soup - Typeface

Today we were briefed on studio brief 3. We are required to design a typeface for a fill alphabet and 6 glyphs of our choice. The typeface used as a base to build upon must represent the personality and character of my partner. Through a series of questions I discovered a basis on her personality and character, this will help me chose a font from the Adobe Font Folio for the start of my manipulations. 

Layout format will be a 4 x 8 grid on an A2 piece and a 45mm x 90mm name badge for my partner. 

Below is a list of my answers for my partner Helen Street, these will help me begin developing ideas for a base typeface and manipulation methods I could adopt.  

When is she happiest: When socialising with friends

Her greatest fear: Flying

Favourite place in the world: Rome

Earliest memory: Riding bike into a wall, then not a lot after. 

Her most embarrassing moment: Sitting in a strangers car thinking it was her families.

What makes her unhappy: Family disputes.

Who would play her in the film of her life: New girls Zoey Des channel 

Favourite smell: Antiseptic smell

Favourite word: Mish Mash

Dream job: Graphic Designer

Fancy dress costumer of choice: Jelly fish

Guilty pleasure: Taylor swift songs

How does she relax: Walking and personal chill out time

What in her past would she change: Nothing life's perfect  

After further conversation I found out a few more interesting facts like; 

She would like to play the guitar

Likes hand making things in a craft kind of way

Has an interest in car mechanics and how car engines work

Knows sign language

Doodles a lot when taking notes

Left handed

Appreciates intricate objects 

Clumsy

Organisation/Structure based person 

Favourite colour is green and she likes to wear black

Music wise she likes Indie bands like gaslight anthem

Sarcastic person and loves Korma.