Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Exploration of Weight and Widths

Create one letter form in an Indian Language of your choice and create four variations in weight and width. Weight is the amount of flesh you add to a spine or bone. It varies from Extra thin, Hairline, to Regular to Bold, Extra bold and Extra Black. Width is the variation within a font family which denotes the total width taken by each letter – It ranges from Extra Condensed or Compressed to Regular to Expanded or Extended.

Divya Bhardwaj

Ashok Mahraj

Reshal Shah

Tarun Arya

Shweta Kamble

Vishnupriya Kaulgud

Srinivas Godala

Composition with Letterforms

Create a composition by using only one letter. ie. Letter 'A' Bodoni. You can repeat, explore different sizes, orientation, overlap, rotation, intersection, cropping patterns, textures, progression, tessellation, figure & ground etc.

Theme: Balance.

Ashok Maharaj

Divya Bharadwaj

Kailash Gharat

Chinmay Bhave

Reshal Shah

Shweta Kamble

Sunny Kolekar

Srinivas Godala

Tarun Arya

Vishnupriya Kaulgud

Photography from Nature

Seeing the unseen. 

This assignments aims at improving the students' ability to observe and see the unseen in the world around us. The final output is a set of photographs of objects in nature which has visual similarities with letter forms. 

Compare Devanagari letters of your name with similar objects in nature, explore both positive and negative spaces.

Kailash Gharat

Ashok Maharaj

Srinivas Godala

Reshal Shah

Divya Bharadwaj

Shweta Kamble

Sunny Kolekar

Vishnupriya Kaulgud

3D Letter forms - Installation


Typographic installation


The first letter of student's name in native language is taken for this assignment. The aim is to explore the three dimensional quality of letter forms and then use available objects and material to create an interesting installation which reflects a particular thought associated with a name and a theme.





Letter "A" (Telugu)  by Ashok Maharaj
















Letter "Vi" (Kannada) by Vishnupriya Kaulgud

Letter "Chi" (Devnagari) by Chinmay Bhave

Letter "Sa" (Devnagari) by Sunny Kolekar

Letter "Ka" (Devnagari) by Kailash Gharat


Letter "Sha" (Devnagari) by Shweta Kamble

Letter "Sa" (Devnagari) by Sonal Gupta

Letter "Ta" (Devnagari) By Tarun Arya

Letter "Shri" (Telugu) by Srinivas Godala 
Letter "Da" (Devnagari) By Divya Bharadwaj)