The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted by 18 people from different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, after the UN General Assembly on the 10th of December 1948 after the Second World War. They created the 30 rights to prevent the same atrocities from happening again. After the proposal of the declaration, it only took two years till it was published and agreed on.
After looking at all the different articles I chose 30 ‘Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.’ As I felt that out of them all it shows that these are not optional and you have to follow them to be fair and equal.
I began exploring fonts as we had to look at, futurists, Dadists, Swiss Design, and Post Modernism and the feature that make up each font.
Futurist fonts have features of clean sharp lines, with minimal added to them creating very unique appearance with sleek curves and straight lines. As a result of their design, they are very effective for branding they are very readable, and straight forward whilst still being very visually interesting.
Here are two examples of this font.
Dadaism was an art movement started in 1916 in Switzerland and lasted till the mid-1920s. It was mainly used by artists to break boundaries and play with concepts. This is seen in the fonts being very strong and dramatic to grab your attention.
Here are two examples of this font.
The Swiss design movement started in 1896 when a font was made called Akzidenz Grotesk from Berlin, which led to the creation of the movement, the characteristics were clear-cut and straightforward work. Some of the most popular fonts came from this movement, like Helvetica which was created with three things in mind, readable, applying it to longer text, and making a pure font family. Another Swiss font is the Univers which has the characteristics of Swiss design and is what Helvetica is also based off. Here is a link to the 102 class that we learnt about Swiss design and I did some research on.
Week 8 - International Typography Style
After looking at the fonts I really liked Swiss Fonts with their sleek letters, so I decided to use it for my theme.
When looking at other designs there was one that stood out to me which was this piece by William Leung who is a Senior designer based in San Francisco, he was given a brief in typography class to create a poster with a creative headline, 250 minimum word count, and all in the same font family. He chose Helvetica as the font as ‘It is simple, clean and very user friendly’ he went on to complete this poster following the grid system and hierarchy of the type. I like this poster it’s very effective and flowing, especially with the grid system emphasis by cutting off the year but still very readable.
I began sketching my own ideas on paper before I moved on to Figma, I was trying to play about with point, line, and plane.