Monday, 1 October 2012

Alphabet Soup: Visual Thinking


Dictionary definition from Dictionary.com
noun
1.
a thickness of some material laid on or spread over asurface: a layer of soot on the window sill; two layers of paint.
2.
bed; stratum: alternating layers of basalt and sandstone.
3.
a person or thing that lays: a carpet layer.
4.
a hen kept for egg production.
5.
one of several items of clothing worn one on top of the other.


verb (used with object)
8.
to make a layer  of.

9.
to form or arrange in layers.
10.
to arrange or wear (clothing) in layers: You can layer this vestover a blouse or sweater.
11.
Horticulture to propagate by layering.



Summer Brief letters - examples of 'layer'

Initial Ideas 


Could work from multiple letterforms, multiple typefaces - but it's a SERIES so to start with//for experimentation going to use BEBAS NEUE - simple, uppercase, sans serif, good for testing ideas. After sketching some out by hand, experimented on Illustrator:


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