Type Experiments: Thinking

Throughout the process of executing these experiments, there are a lot of things that I have learned. One thing that ended up shaping the hole project was the unpredictably of what I was working with. At times, it was difficult to reign in the materials and get them to work in my favor, and even then, the outcome of each experiment was, to a certain extent (some more than others), out of my hands. That's not so say though, that I did not have any successes.
Since it was sort of impossible to predict what a going to happen, I was often open to ANYTHING that would happen, as long as there was a change. For instance, in some of my water experiments, the water ran down because it was on an incline. This was unexpected, but not unwelcomed. It was this sort of discovery that drove most of the experiments (and I imagine it was the same with other people too).

Experimental Typography Test

This weekend I spent an extended amount of time recording type over time. I played around with flowers again, like in the previous class, and I also did a lot of type with water. I feel like I started to get something with the water, because of some variables that happened to be in the area I was filming. While this is a technical detail, it's still significant, considering the fact that that is the nature of the question I am asking.



In the flower piece, I waiting for either the flowers to wither or the wind to blow them away. Either element was fine, or a combination of the two, since that's just what happens. The wind was very mild yesterday, but after a few suprise gusts, the flowers were in a pretty good state of disarray, making it nearly impossible to read the word that it originally was.







In the first and second water test, I was trying to play with the nature of the water spreads. To be honest, I was a little disappointed in the degree that it did NOT spread. When I did initial tests—on a smaller scale—to the letters, there was a lot of spread of the water, which resulted in almost losing the letter's legibility altogether. Now that I've changed the scale of the letters though, it's not nearly as obvious.

After the first two tests with water, I realized that something more interesting than what I was trying to test was happening. I was filming on a slight incline, and the water was beginning to drip. This was a new factor that I had not thought about before, and for the third water test, I changed locations and tried to capitalize on this running water effect.

Type Experiments

Moving along with the nature theme, I tried to execute an experiment in which I set up flowers in their natural environment. This was not a time-lapse experiment, since I was just trying to make it believable that these flowers were in their natural environment. Since technical problems that we run into don't matter, I will try to focus on other areas. Right now, these letters are very simple, and also do not show any change. Continuing on, I would like to try and work on making the letters a little more detail, and get back to the original questions of the evolution or devolution of type that is reflecting its environment.

Experiment Evolution, Thus Far

Initial Experiment Inspiration

Type

Preliminary/Spring Break Type Research (REVISED)

Typography Research