Brief: The final major project has probably been the most open brief that I have had to tackle so far in my career, as I had to set the brief for myself. I thought it was a great step up of freedom to be able to set the brief myself. I started by doing a mind map of everything that I have previously and currently been interested in to try and narrow the topics down a little bit. I spent a term researching things that I am interested in. After a good sized body of research I fell upon the topic of hand-drawn lettering and type. My first step was to test a huge number of different forms and styles of hand-drawn lettering and looking into the subject more specifically through research. Within my research I found that not a lot of people that have written and spoken about writing, lettering or type actually know the difference between the three. I felt like this was immediately calling my name. I decided to choose this as my brief. It was quite a struggle to think of how to show these differences between the three but I ended up deciding on producing a lower case brush style alphabet. By doing this I can physically show what writing, lettering and type is as I go through the stages of producing the alphabet. Although the main point of the book was to explain the differences between writing, lettering and type, I also took the opportunity to give a brief history of alphabets, the differences between some of the brush pens that are the market at the moment and practice strokes for brush styled writing.
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