The Music: Alison Krauss and Union Station, Smashing Pumpkins
The Drink: Rooibos tea
The Weather: Its dark, who cares
The Mood: Procrastination (see below)
Well, I
should be studying Ancient Hebrew but doing this is arguably:
a) easier
b) more fun
c) I actually have some vague understanding of what I am doing.
I think I might be running a risk that you will learn more about me through this tutorial than Engraving. Yikes. That's quite a scary thought.
Anyway. Block lettering.
First I must salute/bow down/shout aloud "We're not worthy" to my hero Edward Johnston for designing the beautiful and flawless London Underground font.
Take a moment if you will, to peruse and admire the following:
Is it not a work of glorious simplicity and beauty?
Yes. Yes it is.
If anyone out there has had the misfortune to travel on the London Tube system you will know what a miserable and soul destroying experience it can be.
What joy, then, to know that during your journey there is the opportunity to improve your engraving by studying this marvelous typeface.
I'm not going to repeat the layout because its pretty much the same method as laying out Roman. (Although I counted the full stops in the web and email address to spread it out and make it more legible). Block tends to be a bit more square than Roman, so the method is the same, but with the necessary changes being made to proportions.
Here's what I've done. It's bothering me though because I've got the 'ruthanthony.co.uk' repeated below itself, which is not ideal.
So I tried this as a second option. I am using script numbers because I like the way they look, but am not sure if it will look OK mixing block and script in the same line. Any suggestions on how to improve on this design are welcome.
Sorry the pic is a but fuzzy
That's it for the moment. Probably won't have time to do more til the weekend now.
Links of Interest
London Underground font
http://www.planet-typography.com/new...derground.html
The Edward Johnston Foundation
http://www.ejf.org.uk/ejf.html
and if you're looking for a laugh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Serriffe