Twenty-six.

26 is the number in my head a lot these days.

That’s because 26 is the number of designs/prototypes that I need to come up with by Christmas. One design for every letter of the alphabet.

So far, it’s been tricky. I’ve spent a lot of fruitless hours sitting down trying to come up with ideas – we’ve been given a list of words for every letter which we are to develop, and there are two ways of doing this: one way is to come up with an idea, develop it, and then try and find a word to fit it to. The other is to develop an idea from the word up.

Both ways are proving difficult, so I’ll have to mix up my idea generation methods.

But there are some ideas that have come into fruition. Here’s one, for ‘Knowledge’:

 

Any type nuts in the audience will recognise exactly what this is. As for me, it was a great project to try and learn about type, and after making a whole bunch of these I’ve managed to remember a lot of the letter terms pretty well. Joy.

So now – where do I take this?

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