This half-year in the faculty is killing me. There’s just too much going on and too little time - hence, I haven’t been updating my blog much lately.

One of the subjects, and my favorite one, is typography. Lessons have just started and all we’ve learnt is some history, so I’m still waiting for the real lessons. We did get some assignments though. One of them was typographic composition. Here are the rules of the game:

• Pick 3 words.
• Create a composition out of these 3 words inside a 80 x 80 mm square.
• Use only one character type, but variations (bold, italic, etc.) are possible.
• No letter deformations.
• No colors. Black only.
• Repeat at least 3 times.

I did 5 of them quickly during class with good intentions of doing some more later, at home. Lazy as I am, of course, I did only one at home. Anyway, here are 5 of them (I have decided not to share the bad one).

Alea iacta est
“The die has been cast”, famous words by Julius Caesar. I tried to create an effect of a rolling die here, EST being the die and alea and iacta working as an effect of movement.

rock and roll
Groovy, rolling, etc.

Made in china
I’m sure you’ve seen it written everywhere. Typography resembles the flag of china.

Pijte boljšo vodo
“Drink a better water” - Marketing slogan of a Slovene natural mineral water, Dana. I was going for a shape of a water drop here.

Et tu brute
“You too Brutus” - Another famous quote by Julius Caesar. These were supposedly his last words when attacked and killed by a group of senators, including his close friend Brutus (wikipedia link). I tried to show here, how Caesar raised his voice (I have no idea wether he really did this) while pointing at Brutus (word “TU”) and his passing away at the end of the sentence.

 
I’m quite happy with the results. I guess I could have done it better if I took more time, though. But it is really a nice exercise, to see just how much one can do within the given limits and using only letters.