I have decided to take a very illustrative approach for my typeface. This will represent Samuel Hoh (my partner) and his personality. I have asked him a set of questions, and completed various research to assist my designs. I will be looking at the work of Björn Johansson as inspiration for my idea's, and I will be linking his style to my research into Sam's lifestyle. Currently I have decided to focus more heavily on 'dinosaurs' as this is the one extinct species that Sam said he would like to bring back. I am also basing my designs heavily on the 'Kai' typeface, as Sam came back to me with this as his favourite style and font.
For my final outcome I used an 8x4 format to represent my 26 letters and 6 glyphs. Despite a few of the letterforms and glyphs not quite being to my ideal format I am overall pleased with the outcome and feel that the collection work well as a series or set. I maintained a fairly simple style to my work, whilst also representing the dinosaur bones through subtle detail, which looks really effective. Here are some images from my final outcome;
