OUGD405 - Study Task 04 - Typographic Exploration

My first initial idea for this task was to look at how the type on calculator screens could be used themselves and to experiment with creating various words using the limited amount of numbers and symbols present on a calculator face. Words included those such as, 'sorry', 'hello', 'illegible', 'sizzle' and even 'asshole'.

Based on these initial experimentations, I then looked at how they could be recreated and digitalised using functions within Illustrator. This allowed me to see further how each letterform is produced and the elements it's made up from which I could then work to recreate myself using a similar structure. For this next stage I used a pre-set grid from excel that I could use to create hand-drawn type which gave it a digital and pixelated aesthetic where individual parts of the letterform are broken up into similar length lines.