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Create a short video (1min) about your assigned font and what you think is interesting regarding this font and its characteristics.

My assigned font was Hobo and I decided for a more history related video due to the fact that Hobo has in my opinion a very interesting background. Hobo is also seen as a 'crappy font' just like Comic Sans, but that is not necessarily the case.

I also noticed that I saw Hobo appear a lot in the cities I visit a lot as well. If you look around in Rotterdam, there's a lot of examples of hobo you can find.

some personal examples of Hobo that I found in Rotterdam.

some messy process: me trying to understand what to say in the video and how to organise the amount of information I found about the history of the type & all

sources that I used when researching the history and origin of this font:

Typographic map of your room

I wanted to create something with the memories I have connected to objects. When someone enters my room they see all these things. When using the theory from this course to describe this way of viewing I would say they only see the Signifier, not the Signified

Signifier: the sign
Signified: the meaning

How do I visualise all these stories that come together in my room? How would translate the way I view my room to others?

Some brainstorms & mindmapping I did in my process journal to make sense of all the information I collected

I tried writing down the most precious and strong memories I had connected to the objects in my room.

This really helped me by creating some content to work with. I was struggling quite a bit with only using typography to design something

A couple of months ago I also did a project only containing typography and some other restrictions

I liked the idea of using more 'spatial elements in this project. I see my room also as something 3D, it's not just four walls and a roof.

I thought about describing my room in a more abstract way, but I figured that I still saw my room as a room with a closet, a desk and a bed in it. Only the more personal items had a real memory coupled to them.

Also my goal for this assignment was to also learn something new (a new skill within one of the programs)

I discovered that you are able to work in 3D in illustrator!

My room as a reference

First I tried something like this, but it didn't really communicate the feeling of a room, it looked a lot more like an infographic.

the number 27 is my favourite number & also the number engraved on the key to my room.

I did some proper 3D stuff in illustrator. This was just a sketch

I tried out some colour variations, these colours were a bit too dark when comparing them to the identity of my room

For me, my room is a happy space where I can relax and be myself, also a lot of people I'm close to come into my room a lot so for me it's a happy space, therefore the happy colours

These are the colours I would use if my room was a place I wouldn't feel to happy to be in.

The abstract words spell:
- closet
- desk
- bed
- room

Nueue Machina is a font with a lot of Geometry in it, this connected to the spacial element I wanted to add. It's also a font which refers to autonomous letterpress techniques due to its deep ink-traps.