reviewing questions

1. Which materials and techniques have you experimented with during the typography project? 

I have experimented with coloured pencils, coloured pens, water colour paint, acrylic paint, bleaching heatpress, spray painting, papercutting, photoshop, illustrator and fontstruct. 

2. Have you explored and developed your ideas imaginatively? How have you demonstrated this? 

At the beginning of the project when i started my experiments I was using less imaginative fonts, use of colours and could not think of creative sayings to write EXAMPLE but as the experiments progressed, I got more creative with my work and started experimenting with digital and handmade typography and seeing how they compared and looked at different lyrics I could use in my work EXAMPLE. I think its clear from the experiments that my creativity and imagination has improved throughout the experiments.   

3. Have you researched a diverse range of artwork and completed this on your blog? who have you analysed? is you analysis in-depth? 

I've in-depth analysed work by Oscar Wilson and analysed work by James Hancock & Hennie Haworth, Vladimir Koncar, Si Scott, Mathilde Nivet and Debbie Smyth. I've completed a wide range of artwork using different techniques and materials, from all the artists I looked at I tried to recreate my own version of their work. I think sometimes this worked well, but on a few occasions I feel I could have done more to make the pieces of work different so it didnt copy the artists work as much. 

4. Have you explored a range of ideas around the theme of 'Sayings and Expressions' within your experiments? What are they? How have they informed your ideas?

I've looked at different lyrics I could use in my work and also brainstormed different important sayings when I experimented with the spray painting. 

5. Have you refined / developed your outcomes through experimentation? How? 

Throughout my experimentation i'd preferred the handmade typography to digital so I already knew I wanted to design my t-shirt using a handmade technique. At first I thought I would like to do heat pressing but I decided I would do something more unusual and chose spray painting. After doing the experiment for spray painting I realised it was an effective technique especially as i'd be using a white t-shirt. 

6. Have you annotated, in detail, your experiments and developments on your blog and used this information to help you improve? 

I annotated all my work and the work of the artists, I stated ways I thought I could improve my work and the process I went through to produce it. I also mentioned why I chose things such as colours and lyrics and why they worked well. 

7. Which techniques / experiments have been most successful? Why?

I think the bleaching was the most successful technique I experimented with. It looks very effective against the black t-shirt whereas I dont think it would have worked as well with the white t-shirt. The spray painting also worked well as the bright colours were very bold against the white card and therefore I thought would look bold and bright on the white t-shirt. 

8. Which techniques / experiments have been least successful? Why?

Heatpressing because I think it looked tacky on the white t-shirt as you could see the whit background of the design and this would have looked even worse on the black t-shirt. Also I didnt like the coloured pencil and pen typography as it looked plain and boring and didnt have detail to it. 

9. Which techniques / experiments will you be developing further for your final outcome? Why? 

Spray painting because I think this will look really bright and bold against the white t-shirt and will look unique. Also I think the spray painting would enable me to use different colours in my design, although I wont be able to complicate my stencil too much as I will have to cut it out using a stanley knife and this may prove difficult with a complicated design. 

10. What else can you do to further develop the techniques / experiments you want to use for your final outcome?

I will look at exsisting spray painted t-shirt designs and create a collection where I can see what colours and fonts and sizes work best. Also I want to have a saying on the front of my t-shirt so I will have to brainstorm ideas and then choose from that depending on the length of the saying and the position it will have on my t-shirt.