IGCSE Unit 1A Typography - Found Letterforms

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IGCSE Art & Design Graphic Design: Typography !

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composed from elements in the world around you. Assemble your alphabet using only found objects or environments. Letters must be documented through photography and presented as an A2 poster.

“Letters are highly specialised images, and we have always read words as images. Words are perceived as silhouette image-shapes; the letters they are made from are actually little pictures, and writing is a highly evolved and specialised form of drawing.� Timothy Donaldson, Shapes for Sounds

"Found Alphabets." Jen Quinn. Behance. Web. 11 Aug. 2014. ! <https://www.behance.net/Gallery/Found-Alphabets/52303>.


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