Study Task 3 - Blackletter in Graphic Design

Study Task 3 - Blackletter in Graphic Design

In response to study task 3 I originally used black ink and paint brushes to replicate some of letters in a blackletter style. The shapes and letters that I created can be seen in Figure 1 and Figure 2. Once these had dried I cut all of them out and tried putting them together in different ways to create the arrows and my chosen pictograms.

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Figure 3

I created all of the arrows using elements of a couple of the letters that I replicated when painting the letters. You can see the outcome in Figure 3.

Figure 4

The first pictogram that I recreated was the elevator pictogram. I tried to use the blackletter style to simplify the design but also make it more contemporary. You can see the outcome in Figure 4.

Figure 5

The second pictogram I recreated was the telephone. I decided to completely change the design for this and based my design on a telephone pole and wire. I used one of the shapes I had painted and vectorised and added the lines to represent the wire. This is my favourite of the designs and can be seen in Figure 5.

Figure 6

The final pictogram that I decided to recreate was the one for exit. I kept this one fairly close to the original design like I did with the elevator one but using the blackletter style in a more contemporary rather than it being cliché. Figure 6 shows this design.