RESEARCH ON: Roxxie Blackman
As apart of our
new two-week period design brief we were asked to design a typeface for a full
alphabet including six glyphs that represent the personality/character of our
partners, which we were paired up with using the ‘randomizer’. This studio
brief was a continuation of from the previous Alphabet Soup task given, thus
looking further into type and typographic forms. From the randomizer the person
that I was paired with was Roxie Blackman, in order to help us kick start this
brief we were given a set of questions to ask each other in order to get to
know each others personalities, below it the list of questions followed by the
answers from my partner; Roxie.
1) What is your
favorite colour?
Purple/lilac
2) What is your
earliest memory?
Falling off a bunk bed and cutting my chin open
3) Which living
designer do you most admire and why?
Jessica Hische – Love all of her typographic work, and love how
she is an upcoming designer
4) What’s is your most
treasured possession?
At the moment – my MacBook
5) What would your
super power be?
To make food when whenever and whatever
6) Which piece of
graphic design do you wish you had created?
Will have to think about that one
7) Who would you play
in the film of your life?
Probably some really goofy teen idol like Miley Cyrus or Demi
Channel
8)Who would you invite
to your dream dinner party?
The whole cast of The Lord of the Rings
9) What makes you
unhappy?
Spelling mistakes, sad love films and not being able to eat – I
love food
10) What would be your
fancy dress costume of choice?
I would love to dress up as Urukai, would probably need a pro
make up artist though
11) Which words or
phrases do you most overuse?
Pleb, twat, dickhead, fuck/fuckin, I have an extremely foul mouth
& over swear ALL the time
12) Write a list of
words/phrases that best describe your personality.
Rude, laddy, moaner, laid back
After finding out a little more about my partner I realized
that this set of questions helped a small amount however didn’t really touch on
what my partners personality was truly like. In order to gain a larger amount
of knowledge of my partners personality/likes and dislikes I decided to ask
another set of my OWN questions in order to become accustom to her personality
further.
1)
What
is your favorite season if the year?
Spring
2)
What
is your star sign?
Aquarius
3)
What
is your favorite food?
Crisps- Cheese
& onion
4)
What genre of music are you into?
A little bit of
everything really
5)
Are you a clean, tidy or messy kind of
person?
In-between
6)
Do you have any hobbies?
Playing the guitar
7)
What is your preferred time if the day?
Night
8)
Where are you originally from?
Oxford shire
From this Information Roxxie had given me about her personality I decided to create a spider diagram to help me outline the main characteristics and main parts of her personality that would help me progress and solve this studio brief. I initially created the first spider diagram from the questions above and then decided to write a list of the next steps I could take in order to progress with the studio brief in order to solve the problem and communicate my partners personality.
After speaking to Roxxie after reflecting upon this spider diagram I gathered some more information on her likes and dislikes along with gathering a greater understanding of her design and creative interests. Below is another spider diagram depicting other sectors thats I could research into.
In order to help me structure and create a pathway to follow when tackling this project i decided to pick out the main pointers/areas that I felt were important to research into in order to gain a greater visual understanding of my partners interests. I then categorised the areas that i felt I could research into in order to collate a bank of creative influences in order to start designing and developing the typeface. The categorise/areas that I intended to investigate further into included:
- FORMAL TYPEFACES (in specific): GILL SANS
- DESIGNERS/ ARTISTS
- RUSSIAN LINGUISTIC LETTERFORMS
- BODY ART: Tattoos & piercings
ALL RESEARCH ON THIS TASK IS AVAILABLE ON MY DESIGN CONTEXT BLOG VIA THE LINK BELOW:
http://a-mistry1215-dc.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/studio-brief-3-alphabet-soup-typeface.html
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