After the crit from 9/10, I have realised that my briefs are too broad - they needed narrowing down. For my typeface design brief, I proposed to create a typeface inspired by "other cultures". Looking back now, that was a little foolish. There are thousands of cultures in the world, getting inspiration from all of them would be an impossible task.
I narrowed it down to Scandinavian culture, as I've always had an interest in it, but again it's a little too broad. The Scandinavians have a diverse history and varying cultures within the different countries. Sophie suggested that I look at the Nordic alphabet for inspiration - a set of symbols used by the Vikings before the introduction of the Latin alphabet.
I narrowed it down to Scandinavian culture, as I've always had an interest in it, but again it's a little too broad. The Scandinavians have a diverse history and varying cultures within the different countries. Sophie suggested that I look at the Nordic alphabet for inspiration - a set of symbols used by the Vikings before the introduction of the Latin alphabet.
The symbols are completely different to the letterforms we use today. Because of this, I think a combination of both - a latin based typeface with aspects of the Nordic alphabet - is going to make a very fulfilling brief.
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