Hello Everyone,

Its the day before school goes back, and I am doing a post of the letter P in Times—Bold, Earlier I did a hand written P, and this time after some concept work, and working through I came up with 4 different posters with some design elements in mind.

To start with I will show you my concept work in case you are wondering where I am up to, followed by the actual finished pieces done in Adobe Illustrator CS3

Concept Work

Positive and Negative Space

With the positive and negative space category after working through some different categories, I decided use the golden mean theory of divine proportion and take the negative space out of the P make it big, cut it out of the box, and put the rest of P inside it.

Line and Shape

With the line and shape, I took the straightest part of the P, the main stick part, enlarged it to create one big line, took some inspiration from a playing card, and made the P into its own card, the new ace in the stack.

Emphasis and Scale

With emphasis and scale I was left with the question, how do you make something emphasized using scale, I couldn’t come up with a better idea, make the emphasis using scale. The part I like most about this one is the scattering effect, I also included the use of Positive and Negative space to make use of the the emphasis, and a design element called Visual Discord to also create the emphasis.

As an interesting side note, for the scale of the P’s I also used the golden mean.

Geometric Shape

Although a little bit further away from my concept work, this one came alive on the screen, as I was playing around with different bits and pieces, I decided a movie reel was the way to go. It created a motion to the piece , a visual interest, and a direction. All the time using parts of the P to create the geometric shapes, taking advantage of the negative space, a bit of symmetry, rhythm, and pattern.

The next part of this project is to create some actual models of the letter P, while at the moment it seems like fun to do, I have no idea how it is going to work out. I will be posting pictures of my work on here though, so look out for that.

Cheers
lacedrabbit