Ahh. Another project done.
For our second Type 3 project we had to get down and dirty with typefaces and start combining pieces of different ones together. There were some VERY crazy combinations happening.
The idea was to experiment, look at what you'd come up with for shapes and individual letters, and pick a short phrase that suited the letters themselves (we had a 3 word minimum for ours).
If your type was sharp-looking and pointy, maybe the phrase would be about knives.
Mine happened to remind me of fairy tales, and it's just downright weird looking. So I picked the best weird fairy tale I could think of: Alice in Wonderland.
The computer isn't doing the colors for this baby justice.
Printed out the background is much more vibrant (but still more muted than the letters so they didn't get lost on the paper), as is the pink.
Major pain in the neck for this project: outlining "Wonderland" in the hot pink. I went crosseyed for a while, and had to take a nap. What happens when you combine chunks of shapes together in illustrator (the program I used to do this) is that they REMEMBER their shape - even when you link them to a new one. The auto-outline option, which is normally really handy, outlined each separate piece and made for some ugly little issues.
Fonts combined to make these: Helvetica Neue Regular, Baskerville Italic
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