Type Abstraction Exercise
Part I

Description
The goal of this typography exercise was to obscure the first and last characters of our middle name while still retaining the character’s basic character identification, meaning that the letter it couldn’t be confused with another letter. The tools we had at hand were negative and positive space, cropping, enlargement, rotation, blending off the picture plane and the position on the black matte board that we mounted it on.

Date
October 2002

Course
Typography 1

Instructor
Timothy O’Keeffe

Dimensions
48p x 48p

Typeface
Helvetica

Materials
Pencil, Tracing Paper, Layout Paper, Eraser, Ruler, Black Ink Pen and Type Specimen Book.