After getting feedback from last project’s critique, it was clear that I was starting getting somewhere with my modular explorations. I was learning that grids keep the letters consistent and the more abstract the grid, the more unique results I was getting.
For the chair lettering, I was seeing if there was anything interesting I could get out of it, but I only developed expected results and decided that I needed to go in a different direction. There was nothing interesting forming.
I then began to explore non traditional grids and warped grids. In order to keep consistency from grid to grid, I treated each letter with the same style of characteristics. I also used the restrictions of 3 units wide and 5 units tall. I began with a traditional grid to create letters to use as a comparison.
For the first grid with curved lines, I produced letters that appeared tilted or italic. They were consistent in structure and even played with dimensionality.
The crumpled grid made interesting letters. They were all jagged in their own way, but still stayed consistent. It is not very readable or practical, but you can see the relationship between the grids.
The final grid with different sized units also was not very practical. However, the thing that makes these letters consistent is the stroke. This grid provides good opportunity for contrast with the difference in module size.
