Lettering Exercises

This was an in-class exercise we did to help us loosen up and experiment with text.  We collaged letters, wrote without looking, painted only the negative space around the letters, drew with sticks, etc.  Here are some examples of what we worked on.

 

Then, after drawing inspiration from Stefan Sagmeister (http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/sagmeister.html), I created this:

 

 

 

This is based off of a quote my gran says all the time, "Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see."