Type Inspiration

Over the weekend I've just been working on thumbnail drawing associated with TEA :-) It's harder to think of words than I would have thought...because after the obvious 'sugar', 'milk', 'biscuits' etc and the more ambiguous, like 'comfort', 'happiness' etc, the list was becoming almost exhausted. Then I thought of places where you drink tea, who actually drinks it and where it comes from and I got some more ideas from that!
I was just researching 3D typography ideas.... Here are some of my favourite images:














I found the artist Stephanie DeArmond . DeArmond's work explores ''language – taking slang phrases, colloquialisms, and snippets of conversation and abstracting them into sculptural form where meanings are revealed and obscured through typography and letter forms'' . The artist ''uses traditional hand-building techniques to make complex constructions from slabs of clay. The typographic forms she creates are based on her own hand-drawn lettering and vintage letter forms. ''
I like her work because it is similar to one of the ideas I began to consider after researching my word TEA. I have been thinking about creating a large 't' , creating it out of broken pieces of teapots, china cups and tea mugs....It's just an idea in thumbnail sketches at the moment ......

Stephanie DeArmond  :