Edited pictures of 3d type

These are my photographs after editing. I made a colour palette for each season using the images of the colour tool that I had collected. I chose a selection from each category (Cool, warm, neutral-warm and neutral-cool) to use when re-colouring my photographs so that they match the colour palette we had discussed for the publication and calendar. In hind sight  it would have made more sense to spray paint all of the words in pure white to allow them to re-coloured more easily. It would have been better if I had made one word and tested the whole working process beforehand, however I was under a two week time restriction so I think I worked with the time I had available and it has all worked out fine in the end.

finished 3d type

I have finally finished my four pieces of 3d type for the Fedrigoni brief - laser cut followed by hand assembly and finally spray painting the designs. These are the initial un-edited versions....

In hind sight it would have been better to spray paint with matt spray paint as this looks much more effective - like actual paper which was the idea! Also it is easier to photograph as it has no shine to it.

crafting 3d letters

I am taking the laser cut design and removing areas and then elevating them on scrap booking sticky tabs to add some other dimensions to the designs. 

type development

Chris and I decided to change our four key words to 'Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter' as we felt that these words suited the colour  palettes of the paper selection tool effectively and allow us to deign a calendar as part of the deliverables. I laser cut the designs that I prepared by vectorising the type and then manipulating it so that it cut certain areas. I cut it backwards so that I could tape up the upwards-facing side after it finishes cutting to ensure that the pieces don't fall out when I take it out of the machine. This worked well and everything went exactly to plan. I then used a scalpel and tweezers to remove certain areas and to pull sections out and then replace them again on little stilts that I made from scrap-booking squares. This is to give the design some added dimension - multiple levels. I spray painted the first design in a brown shade I sourced which matches the 'Autumn' colour palette.

Preparing type for laser cut session tomorrow

Today I had a meeting with my group from the workshop on friday - we had a productive crit of each others research and then Chris and I had a meeting about where to go with our Fedrigoni brief from here. Interestingly, in our research we had picked up on a couple of things that were the same, as well as some completely different angles. We decided on Friday after the workshop, that we would continue researching and discussing deliverables and ideas today, but by the end of the day would settle on an idea and go with it. We decided that I would start on the artwork - I have a laser cut session tomorrow so I am keen to try out some ideas as soon as possible. I investigated a range of typefaces and the have prepared two out of the four we need for cut tomorrow at 11am. I have a session on wednseday, thursday and friday so it will be good to see how tomorrow goes in order to prepare for the other sessions. We are aiming to be finished on the artwork by friday and photographed by monday.