I chose to base these around monuments - A around the Eiffel Tower, using the internet to research buildings that reflected each shape (S and E proved difficult to find any for) and lightly sketching out in pencil first. I wanted the outline only, as this would be more simple to use and to integrate colour into if made into a actual font. When I was happy with the design I used a black ballpoint pen over the top to enhance the details and create something that was more finalised.
This took a long time to come up with as a lot of the session I was researching and developing the correct monument for the correct letter - I don't think this would be part of my final design of A-Z as this would take too long to do and not enough monuments create an actual shape, letters like B, S, H, F and Z would not be easy to find monuments for as they don't make practical building shapes.
My second character design I want to focus on was quick sketches using my own hand writing, using it in a italic way, outlined, or in a cartoon style. These were meant to be quick experimentations to come up with a solid idea.
For my last idea, I came up with the idea of using cats as the character's for my font. For each letter, they would be styled in a different position, either asleep, with another cat, or just stood up straight. Again I wanted to keep this as minimalist as possible, to make it far practical to use. This was one idea that would take too long but worked particularly well, especially for the N as the cat was stretching. Overall, I would probably take the most simple design and develop this for my typography project.
