Type and Stencil #2

Process and Production - Nick - 22/03/2017

In this process, I worked in a team and there were three teams in total. Each team had a French word that they were given and ours was 'l'imagination'. We were then told to write the word out in any way we wanted as long as it was inside the grid box.

Below is what I have designed. The idea behind it was that each letter was an object, animal, building etc, something that gets the viewer to use their imagination, hence, the word we were given. The only problem was that I ran out of space and I improvised by spelling 'imagine' then drew a French flag to represent 'nation' so together, it will read out 'image-nation' and it will sound like 'imagination'.

The next step was choosing which one to go with out of everyone's designs. We were all given post it notes to stick on the design that we preferred the most and the one with the most votes was the one that we had to do.

Below was the one that was chosen, designed by Beth who was in my team...

Since it was going to be on the wall, it had to be enlarged and we were given A2 pieces of paper to re-create the type again but on a bigger scale. We decided who did what by splitting the grid equally so each person had the same amount of work to do then when completed, it will be joined together. I was given the job to sketch parts of the 'm', 'a' and 'g' which can be seen below. We had different choices of what we could do after we sketched it out, either cut it out like a stencil or paint on top of it, but whatever we chose, we had to use the colour yellow.

Below was the final look of it when combined together. I really like it, every piece goes well together.

The last part was sticking it on the wall which was then recorded by the camera by taking pictures of it. We decided that we will pretend that each rectangle we touch, a part of the design appears, it's hard to explain without actually showing you the video which is currently being made....

I enjoyed it because we rarely work as a team in these sessions so it was interesting to see if I could work in a team. It was fascinating to hear and see everyone's designs and how they approach a problem.