The next workshop with Nick explored the use of typography. For this session, we were given several fonts to cut out and create posters from; this could be sayings provided or we could make our own up. For the first poster "WHAT DO YOU MEAN!" I chose to stick with the sayings provided with us to get into the flow of creating posters. Again, with Nick sessions, I love the relaxed, drawing and cutting together idea behind the workshop. It really made me explore my ideas and come up with things that I was actually proud of doing - even though I'm more inclined to work on the computer, it was nice to spend an afternoon cutting out and working out what would look the best.
In this workshop we were to consider kerning, typeface, position and the use of uppercase and lowercase. Looking back on what we learned at Aidan's session, I tried to take this into this workshop by considering the positioning between each letter and tried to keep them as
minimalistic as possible. I also tried to take into position the use of uppercase/lowercase, as the word flows better in all the same style.I loved this workshop, it was so much fun to come up with sayings to create as a poster and particularly just focus on positioning and font style, stripping back to basics and looking at what looks good. In response to the workshop I tried to re-create the posters I'd done and add colour, texture, keeping to the minimalistic response but trying to add a "pop" of colour. I chose to make the "WHAT DO YOU MEAN!" poster like a speech bubble, as it's a direct quote from a song.
