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Sara's Workshop - Font

For this workshop the prepared work was research into a font of our choice and then some mood boards on what we wanted the piece to look like, to help  us during the session.

 I looked into a font called Gill Sans, heres what i found :

1913 – Johnston Sans designed by Edward Johnston for the London Underground. Eric Gill worked as Johnston’s as an apprentice and even had a small role in designing the font.

1926 – Gill thought the font could be improved and strived to create the perfect legible typeface.

1928 – Stanley Morrison of Monotype released Eric Gills new font Gill Sans in capitials

1928 – Marketed by Monotype as "Classic simplicity and real beauty"

1929 – Gill Sans Lower Case was introduced.

1929 – London and North Eastern Railway chose the font for all its poster, timetables and publicity material, a use later extended across all British railways.

1935 – Penguin introduced their new design using Gill Sans on the iconic covers, designed by Edward Young

1997 – The BBC began using Gill Sans for their Logo

1999 – Gill Sans Heavy Bold was used for the Toy Story Movie Logo.

 Due to the font being created for the London Underground I thought the underground logo and some lines which look like the ones from the tube map where appropriate


For the video I wanted to something which was almost like a whistle stop tour, something fast much like a tube. 

 I am actually very happy with my outcome although if I where to do again I would do 30 second instead of a 10 second on to get more information into the clip.


Gill Sans Font Edit 1 from Jade Holmes on Vimeo.
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