Summer Brief - Brief and Rationale

The brief is to research a topic to understand it.

At first I wasn't sure on what to do because I want to make sure it's useful knowing a lot about a subject.

I thought of the things outside graphics that I like and collect like, murder and crime, mugs, drinking - but by that I mean the labelling and packaging etc.

However, I've chosen to look into hand rendered type. My brother got a bottle of Kraken for his birthday and I love the design of it, so I looked it up and a company Stranger and Stranger designed it along with many more bottles. So looking through them it made me interested in the type they use.

From there I used Instagram as a platform to find good type work and the designers to go with them. Being interested in hand rendered type isn't enough, I want to practise it too along with researching into it.

Rationale

For the summer brief I want to research into hand rendered type which will include
- What type of pens to use
- What paper is good to use

-Techniques, caligraphy techniques etc

-Emails to designers to ask them questions about these things and hopefully start up a correspondence

I don't see the point in researching all of this if i'm not going to get properly involved so I have decided to do a 'Sketch a day' challenge. Which means I will practise type everyday and hopefully blog everyday to get me back into a routine and used to blogging.