I went to the Baltic to look at the Daniel Buren exhibition which I really enjoyed. I thought the colours were so good when they light shone in. The exhibition has given me some confidence to use a lot more colour in my designs.
I also went to the Grainger Market, which is a big old indoor market in centre of Newcastle. There's a lot of old style shops that have been there for year so I thought looking at the signage would be good to for research about type, hand rendered type and sign painting.
This has helped me to look at different fonts and styles and understand how to draw them as well.
I also came across a church and looked at the headstones. They show real scripture and real type because all the flourishes and serifs etc became to exist because of carving techniques, like original letterforms.
There's quite a lot of impressive shapes in the letters and think it's quite interesting how they have been formed. I'm keen to try and recreate these on paper.
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