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L ES L E Y G A ES S ER
P E R S I S T E N T I N V E S T I G AT I O N
M FA P O R T F O L I O
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Nebular
Forms
An experiment in typography and its shape
and clarity as a single typeface.
TITLE
PROJECT
SOLUTION
Nebulous
The goal of this project was to design
The solution after experimenting with
a typeface in a experimental method
many different materials, was a typeface
PROJECT
and form. Through visual exploration
made up by hand painted letters and
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and hands on experimentation with
then transformed through digital
different materials, a typeface was to
manipulation. The result was a typeface
be derived that supported the idea
whose forms were loose and unclear
and could hold together as a unique,
and the name given was Nebulous,
singular typeface.
which means “in the form of a cloud
YEAR
Spring 2014
COURSE
or haze; hazy.”
Experimental Type
INSTRUCTOR
Irina Blok
“Those who do not want to imitate
anything, produce nothing.”
–Salvador Dali
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