Typeface Design Version 1.010

I haven't being doing a lot over the summer and so inevitably a certain amount of boredom set in.
I'd been wanted to do something designery but found — with no amount of looking — nothing to sink my teeth into.
Then, the other day I remembered that I had fontlab studio 5 and had wanted to learn how to use it, so i have spent three straight days designing a typeface from scratch.
I started drawing a few ideas on paper until I eventually choose a lowercase e and a I liked, then drew them up in fontlab an then designed the rest from there.
This is a fully a working opentype font send me an email if you want a copy. (though I still have to set up the kerning pairs, tweak the metrics, adjust stroke thickness, change some characters and loads of other shit, then make the bold and italic versions!).

Word of Mouth — Negotiated Project

The first draft of my ident for the Word of Mouth project.

Quite a contrast from Visual Development.

Word of Mouth from Sean Cooper on Vimeo.

fear and trembling

This is the final video for Visual Development.

fear and trembling — variant from Sean Cooper on Vimeo.

Sequential Narrative Update

Here's is the most recent Three Blind Mice sequential narrative.
It doesn't seem like I've changed a lot but this is the 35th version!

Posters

Here are a couple of posters.

First is my final(ish) poster for a Matisse exhibition for the Applied Ideas.

Second is an ad for a BBC Four program called Word of Mouth for Negotiated Project. (which I still have to animate.)

Sequential Narrative part 2

I have had a rethink about the story I want to tell for project two.

The tale is a modern day Jack and the Beanstalk, and based on a true story about one of my mates brothers, who sold his van at the pub for a plant. He still claims that it was good deal.

This is the first draft.

Custom Pangram

I wasn't happy with the pangram in the last post so wrote my own.

Z-boy is a reference to dogtown and z-boys which is a documentary about surfers in California who first developed skateboarding in the 70's.

I made the surfer connection because I think the type is dirty and many shapes remind me of coral or seaweed and the bright colours are working much better than any of the Matisse stuff I tried.

It should read “z-boy surfed with verve, quickly making waves but flipped at the crux onto jagged coral” and I have just realised that I have done about thirty variants of this with coral spelt wrong :(

Matisse get shafted

I spent some time earlier making a working font out of my typeface.

which you can download from here (I hope)

Then played laying out the text with various pangrams and think that because I got to tied up with the Matisse bollocks I'd entirely missed the essence of my typeface entirely.

fear and trembling

As requested by Nigel I have made a video of the images from my existentialism book.

It tells the story of the realisation of existence and acceptance of mortality.

It's probably more slideshow than motion graphics.

fear and trembling from Sean Cooper.

Three plugs on the floor

Yesterday, my girlfriend and I decided to do some painting without having thought about what we would paint.

After a small row and nearly not bothering at all, I chose to do a painting of some plugs and a remote control on the floor.

Seeing as this is my first painting for about 21 years and I'm shit at drawing I'm quite happy with it. If you stand far away and squint your eyes it looks awesome.