TYPOCONCEPTS
The project I present to you today consisted in choosing a specific theme and represent it typographically. We had to do cards with those words, but I decided to do a turn to the project and make a little book with all the final works.
After the brainstorming, I decided that my theme would consist of concepts, feelings, diseases that I have suffered, have seen up close and that I continue to suffer today.
And here you can see the result. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did while doing it!
As I said before, it had to be represented with different kinds of typographic fonts. But in my case, I decided to complement it with colors and textured papers for the printing. This way I wanted to achieve a wear effect, roughness, canvas... The color pallette consists in black, grey, red, the white from the paper and a little bit of blue.
You are going to find the explanation of why I represented every word like that below.
Terror: Irregular font with a red gradient. The whole set can remind you of blood.
Anxiety: The irregularity of this font and the random lines inside the letters represents the chaos inside my head.
Fear: Using the recurrence of the word, it reinforces the sensation of trembling when you feel fear.
Falling Apart: I represented this concept like the literal meaning of itself. When the letters start separating and falling, they end up vanishing. It’s like losing yourself when there’s no one left to hold you.
Sadness: Calligraphic font. It gives you a melancholic sensation. The “S” simulates the tears of the person who wrote that.
Depression: This font is a brush stroke. It represents the emptiness, the emotional wear and tear that entails this disease. Reinforced with the black color in the back, you get the feeling of annulment as a person that that provoked me.
Solitude: The use of this font helped me to simulate a group of people together, where the “E” is me. The one excluded from everything.
Broken: The first letter shows lots of chipped parts. As you keep reading, they are a little less broken. Reinforcing the idea of someone getting hurt little by little. This was me getting broken, until there was only one part left of me that was intact.
The final binding chosen was the Japanese one. With this and not using the classic black spiral, I was able to prove that this project is completely mine, and represents who I am.
Thank you so much if you arrived down here!
