The Power of the Portrait:
Portraits, Self Portraits and Identity
Experiment with different layouts and designs.
Use black and white and colour, text, illustration, double exposure etc.
Typography -
Design your own Alphabet
Typography is the art of arranging letters and text in a way that makes the copy legible, clear, and visually appealing to the reader. It involves font style, appearance, and structure, which aims to elicit certain emotions and convey specific messages. In short, typography is what brings the text to life.
This is a great article to read, click the link to have a look.
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NEW EXHIBITION THE WRITTEN WORD:
TIMELESS ARABIC & HEBREW CALLIGRAPHY
Three work of award-winning calligraphy artists, Joumana Medlej, Michel D'Anastasio and Maaida Noor, has been curated in a new exhibition opening at The Woolf Institute on 12 June.
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The Woolf Institute has an international reputation for its interfaith work and is dedicated to educating the public about the heritage of the Abrahamic faiths - Christianity, Judaism and Islam. With interfaith focus at its heart, the exhibition explores some of the creative, artistic productions developed across Abrahamic communities over time, and will showcase the fusion of old traditional methods with modern techniques.
Ideas for types of Interfaith and intercultural Alphabets:
Standard English
Arabic
Hebrew
Chinese
Japanese
Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Armenian
Benghali
Burmese
Ethiopic
Greek
Kemer
Korean
Thai
Tibetan
You could also include elements of Braille or sign language.
Watch this youtube tutorial to see how to to manipulate fonts in Adobe Illustrator.
