One of the things that I like most about these prints is that they all have text on them. I’m fascinated by fonts and lettering, without necessarily being knowledgeable enough to choose or use them competently. I’d love to know more and just generally have a bit more skill in working with type.
Throughout the project I struggled with making the text white – cutting the letters into the block is a process seems more suited to formal lettering. Whereas cutting the letters out of the block seems to favour a less controlled approach where the tool dictates the form of the letter a bit more…
At times in this project I’ve thought I might make a bit more of the lettering; choose some more intricate fonts and really get into crafting the type, but I never quite got around to it. There’s a tension there because working against that desire to get into the more formal typographical side of things is the fact that I really love the way the more organic and freely-cut lettering works. Print 23 is one of my favourites, largely because the rough-cut text looks so great [to me]
And I love the way that the text can be made to wrap around and interact with the image when you cut it more roughly…
One thought that I’ve had is a project to make a Leeds alphabet – 26 letters in different fonts drawn form around the city. Maybe that might satisfy the typographical urge in me
:-)
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