Sock Alphabet font by Tony Venne

PantyRaid by Jennifer Mahanay & Gina Vieceli-Garza and Ants in Pants font by Steven Vanscoy

Kiyoka Katahira was another artist who used body face parts to create a typeface I found this artist’s work very interesting, I had no idea it was possible to form letters of the alphabet using the human body features.

This is something that I would consider doing in the future, if I had the opportunity to create a typeface using DNA.

I looked at more his other work, and thought that several of his works were amazing. I like the colors he uses and the designs he produces, I find that they both work well together.

Here are a few images of his work.

Change of Concept..

After a long thought, I have decided to change my idea for my final major project entirely AGAIN! Hopefully ill stick to this one.

The reason I chose to change it again is due to the fact that I was, struggling to come up with a suitable design to represent my life.

I believe that now I have come up with a improved idea.

My new plan is to create a typeface using the eyes of myself and my siblings,

I will examine their insides of their eyes and their pupils and if there is a way I can make out a letter from it.

This will be a tricky task, as it will be my first attempt on doing something like this and am hopeful it will be worth every minute.

I have researched several artists who have formed a typeface using a body feature. For example Craig Ward a designer/illustrator from London used hair to craft his typeface.

I thought this was rather creative, but am not quite sure where he got all that hair from, but am glad its not mine.

Info on DNA

DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms. Nearly every cell in a person’s body has the same DNA.

The information in DNA is stored as a code made up of four chemical bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T). Human DNA consists of about 3 billion bases, and more than 99 percent of those bases are the same in all people. The order, or sequence, of these bases determines the information available for building and maintaining an organism, similar to the way in which letters of the alphabet appear in a certain order to form words and sentences.

An important property of DNA is that it can replicate, or make copies of itself. Each strand of DNA in the double helix can serve as a pattern for duplicating the sequence of bases. This is critical when cells divide because each new cell needs to have an exact copy of the DNA present in the old cell.

Max Gadney Info

Max Gadney Worked for the BBC in London commissioning digital products and experiences.

Before he did that he worked at the BBC News website, where he was the Head of Design and Audience Insight for several years. Lots of Interaction Design, Information Design, Product Development, Research Methods etc etc

When Gadney was not doing that he wrote and illustrated information graphics for WWII Magazine in the US - looking beyond the simple mechanics of military technology into their development and use.

He said that If there is something he liked as much as a good Argentinian Steak, it was a good conference.

His interests are: art, graphic design, architecture, food - eating and cooking, information graphics, military history, technology, organisational structure, metaphors, perception, comics

Info on Harry Beck

Harry Beck was an engineering draftsman born on the 4^th of June 1982.

Harry Beck was best known for creating the present London underground tube map in 1931. Beck drew up the diagram in his spare time while working as an engineering draughtsman at the London Underground Signals Office. London Underground was originally sceptical of Beck's radical proposal — it was an uncommissioned spare-time project, and it was cautiously introduced to the public in a small pamphlet in 1933. It immediately became popular, and the Underground has used topological maps to illustrate the network ever since

The striking Tube map that is recognised across the globe was the brainchild of Underground electrical draughtsman, Harry Beck, who formed this imaginative yet stunningly simple design back in 1933. Beck based the map on the circuit diagrams he drew for his day job, stripping the sprawling Tube network down to basics.

The result was an instantly clear and comprehensible chart that would become an essential guide to London - and a template for transport maps the world over.