Norse Mythology Series
My Final Major Project focuses on the representation of historical visuals in publishing, by re-imaging the vibrant, visual culture of Norse storytelling for a twenty-first century audience. While these amazing stories have been told and retold across countless generations, in modern published editions generic images are perhaps too often used to accompany the texts. It seems the visuals the Nordic community created to represent their stories have almost been lost to our society. In response, I have created a new three-part ‘Norse Mythology’ book series, re-designing the visuals to better represent the richness of the Norse visual for a modern audience.
Creating a personalised typeface for the book series, was the best option for the design. A normal condensed, sans serif, wouldn’t have given the best representation of the Nordic runes. and the contemporary runic typefaces available were a little cliché. However, taking the main elements of the runes and adding them to a condensed, sans serif, gives a much more minimal, contemporary finish, and gives a better balance between representing the runic language and keeping it for a 21st century audience.