After getting some feedback from Leah, the designer who ran the initial workshop, we began developing our favourite concepts and type.
The developments below express the concepts of turning all straight letters to curved ones and then from curves back into straight ones. Recycling letterforms and then up cycling them again in an attempt to create their original form has created some really interesting shapes and a grid system to work through. I also developed the concept of drawing a letterform that looked like it was holding its breath. This gives the letterforms a lot of physical character that could be played around with a lot more.
After experimenting with those two separate concepts and expressing them through the type with unique grid systems, I then combined the two concepts together. This meant taking those up cycled curved letterforms and bloating them out as they were in fact holding their breath also. I did this by bloating out the serifs like a large chest and making the rest of the connecting type incredibly light as if it were an inhaling stomach.
After this I then played around with a few bloating tools on illustrator to see other possible outcomes and simplifying them. This gave John and I the option to end up generating a typeface family through the workshop just like the original Glyphworld typefaces.
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