Specialism

I find myself drawn to Typography and often find the pieces of design work I like are typography based or have a type in it that particularly interest me. Type, to me is not just lettering, but about creating and arranging shapes in an original manner that still communicates to the receiver. It is a series of symbols that can express great amounts of various emotions and become very personal when used in the right context. You may be able to tell someone's handwriting from another persons and you could even visualize them just from that piece.
Hand made/drawn type especially interest me and I really enjoyed the hand drawn type brief last year. It meant I could combine my messy, expressive side with the more intricate ideas. This brief brought out some of my best work and i ended up producing some really interesting typefaces. I am especially proud of the one on my final poster.
But type is not just the shapes expressing different feelings, I feel the layout of type on a piece holds great importance as well. How it aligns on the page, screen, sheet, wall (or whatever other medias that can be worked on) can make or break a piece.
Since starting university and studying a small amount of type, my love for it has grown and seems to follow me everywhere. I now judge every piece I walk past, casting a decision as to whether it is "good" or "bad" type. Noticing car registration numbers to shop windows and billboards. From the train station to magazines and newspapers. From digital forms to more interactive hand constructed type like Sagmeisters "Trying to look good limits my life" piece.