Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Typographic Workshop

Sanna working on "Tipu"

I took part in a nice typography / lettering workshop on the weekend. The class was organized by Grafia (The Finnish association of graphic designers) and was taught by Mr. Sami Kortemäki of Underware fame.

The theme was "Make the ego bigger" and the assignment was to divide into pairs and make the other person's name into a logotype. I got paired with a friend from the university, Tuukka.

Tuukka's a very nice guy but I initially had some trouble with the double u's and the double k's in his name. But it's not his fault of course. I first tried to find some nice way to draw the letters to one line like in normal text, one result is below. The line from "T" to "u" was added later. Below the logotype are some attempts to handle the double letters in a more intesting way.


I was almost starting to work on the more finished version based on the image above, but then I did make one more sketch with the "uu" and "kk" on different lines. That seemed to work better so I continued in that direction. Next image shows some quick sketches on that idea. The initial and best version is the one that is underlined.


Below is a more finished version that is quite close to the final one.


The final-final drawing can be seen on the wall in the picture below, along with some other logotypes.


And finally there's the Official Photo with Tuukka and his new shiny logotype. Photo and layout by Sami Kortemäki.


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