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This is my final piece for the letter forms project. The unique W crafted from water ripples. The gif I created for the letter form shows the W morning and dripping down to stabilise the theme. These are some screen shots displaying the premise of the gif frame by frame.

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These are screen shots frame by frame showing the premise of the gif, want to display how the block was developing over time.

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This colour way is very effective once placed on my design, very legible and the colour way is extremely complimentary and any person seeing this would link it directly to blueprints.

The reason I am not going forward with this is due to the 3D element of the graphic and 2D designs are primarily used for blueprints.

I want to experiment with some concrete tones, I believe this will make the graphic a lot more imposing.

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I am going to move forward with shedding light on future housing crisis and ways around these rather than making a more political statement about class, with the building getting aesthetically nicer.
The reason im doing this is as I don't want to the project to become too diffuse.

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This is a dark shades colour wheel, showing which tones compliment each other. The concrete colour I have chosen lies between two different tones, the complimentary colours for one is black and one is white. Due to me already trying the black the logical step is to try the white.

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I believe this to be the best colour way for my graphic.

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This is defiantly an improvement In regards to colour way and the impact I want it to have on the viewer.

I am going to do a bit more research to see if theirs any improvements to make.

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Moving on with the concrete colour way. I tried highlighting the the building by giving it a very ominous aggressive black background to frame the building.

I like how the black filters from the background into the building.

The solid black background loses all 'blueprint/ sketch design' Aesthetic which isn't something I want to lose.

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To create a more polished look I transferred to illustrator and. re contracted the building on an overlay of the last design. This step was very critical as it has transformed it into a genuine graphic that I can move forward with

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This piece is about yearning for London, pared with the very serious housing crisis that is happening. This is a commentary on the future of architecture; the motion that has already been happening and will continue to increase, architects making colossal designs that facilitate overcrowding in a bid to match the ever rising population.
Council blocks were engineered to hold a lot of people with minimising the usage of space.
- My concept revolves around what happens when these blocks aren't enough and they have to be re-engineer them in order to house more residents.
This is something that effects me and a lot of my friends in London, due to the vast increase of property prices and the vast decrease of space. This concept sprung from me 'yearning' for London and thinking of the positives and negatives that surround that place.

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I tired a version where they're was shading on a lot of the overhangs of the building. Did this to highlight the dimensions in the building, add to the 3D element.
This is something I don't know if I am going to move forward with but I like having the possibility of using it.
The feedback I've had on the shading is very mixed, I personally prefer the sketch esc aesthetic.

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I loaded the sketch into photoshop, turned up the contrast and selective colour to turn it into a graphic. Then drew the windows and duplicated them on photoshop, placing them in various places to see the best combination.
By transferring it into a digital entity it made it a lot easier to experiment and add new editions without worrying it will ruin the sketch.

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Used 'the streets' album cover in search for a quite clear resemble of a block that is recognisable by a lot of people.
My other reference is my mates block that we have a lot of memories

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When first coming against the challenge of the colour scheme/ colour way for my final design my initial thought went straight to blueprints. The combination of the blue and white is very striking and also extremely recognisable.

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This is a more finalised draft. I am quite happy with the structure and shape of the building, replicating the Y letterform.
I need to work on the paniling, windows etc, deciding what to concrete over and also need to decide wether I am replicating it  all as a council block design or going to do the physical hierarchy design ?
Need to get some feedback from peers. I don't want to overcomplicate the concept though it could be anther nice layer ?

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Need to do more sketches, find out the parts I want to keep and lose with the design.
Im starting to see the concept come together, had a massive problem with making the building look stable due to the shape of the Y though after researching the concept work and having a walk around Manchester  spotting and analysing buildings of similar structures I feel as though I have found ways to balance out the Y; such as creating a larger base and having a more gradual growth in the building instead of harsh extensions.

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I decided to draw the building from this off centred perspective to create a lot more depth and detail.

I really enjoy Lise Brians letterform. Though believe the front on 2D perspective is inferior to the 3D Modle esc effect you get with the off centring. So in my design this will be prevalent. The draw back of this view point is a lot more work as well as the loss of legibility which is something I'm quite concerned about. Thats why in am exploring ways of making the letter form more obvious, seen in sketches above.

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NEW IDEA
The building will aesthetically be quite pleasing though the practicality of the people living in the lower section will be overlooked, I want the building to get more luxurious the higher you get creating a physical and literal hierarchy.
This create a concept where they're would be so much overcrowding that architects would have to build one building that facilitates people of different classes and wealth ?

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I wanted to see how I could implement the housing element into my rough designs of the structure of the building. I want the building to also reflect brutalist architecture so theirs gonna be massive areas of raw concrete. Need. to decide how detailed I want to make it as I was thinking of inverting it for application.

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I sketched some different ideas out for the housing element within the building. Used references from the 'streets album' and one of the blocks my Friend lives in. The concept behind this letter form means it needs to be clear that the housing element is reflecting a council block, due to the commentary on the housing crisis

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I sketched out just the top of the building, looking at how adding more layers could result in a more legible Y.
Trying to use the formula ow slow increase to create a bit more presence at the head of building.

Need to work on how the divide between pillars will be clear.

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I started off by sketching a few new ideas for the building. I Tried tom incorporate certain aspects from the research id been doing, for example the more gradual extension at the top as well as the areas of symmetry, vitally more appealing. This is a rough first idea of how the building could start too look.

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After the 5 minuet sketches I have done it is clear that though the building will be the hardest to present to the standard I want it will be most effective. I have asked pers and in the tutor session also hitch and they have all sided with this one as well.

I might also explore the white herein concept aswel as could visually be very effective.

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'Mergenthaler says he wanted to redefine the way people live in skyscrapers by thinking about the apartments as individual units to shape the building's structure.'

Even though my building design is a letterform I still want it to make sense, I could even creat something that is my interpretation of the Jenga skyscraper, having the core building looking like the Jena though having extensions at the top to create the Y silhouette. A build up of blocked apartments.

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Herzog & de Meuron's New Yorks Jenga skyscraper  - Research

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Herzog & de Meuron's New Yorks Jenga skyscraper  - Research

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After dividend research, I have found a perfect case study for my concept. The 'Jenga' skyscraper uses block architecture on a colossal scale.

'146 apartments first encounter a shiny, chrome sculpture created by British artist Anish Kapoor. Other notable features include the glass boxes that jut out at the top of the building.'

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Architecture concept work, Looking at other designers to, problem solve

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Architecture concept work, Looking at other designers to, problem solve

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I took these picture on a walk around Manchester.
The first building I was quite amazed to stumble upon as it is extremely close to my design concept ideas and it happens to be close to the area I'm living in, amazing use of edges and overhangs, though their is still a intense amount of symmetry which I don't want to achieve.

The second building has a overhang that looks impressive due to how tall the structure is. I might need to make my overhangs ect scaled down.

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Block architecture is extremely intreating as
they all possess the qualities to be in the same bracket of architecture as each other though there secondary styles are extremely diverse, I want to create a high rise in this 'block' architecture style.

After reflecting on these buildings I have realised that a lot of the concept work in the style im wanting to crate, work on small buildings where as I want to work with this style on a tower block so need to think of ways of translating this to a higher structure.

If theirs more infrastructure at the base of the letter/ building it balances out the weight at the top

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After doing the 5 minuet sketches of the concepts I had, it came apparent that creating a letter Y out of a building is possible with the designs I had though the infrastructure and realism wasn't their, I have decided to research more architecture to see if there a way of creating the letterform in a slightly more realistic way.

I am going to research some architecture concept work to see how other creators tackled the same problem im facing

I am also going to go around Manchester and see if I can spot any buildings of this bracket.

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2. Layering buildings from where I grew up until it create a visual city scape of the letter Y.
Wont be able to create a realistic one due to the structure of the letter, it's extremely top heavy and legibility will clash with the physics of the buildings.
I like the idea and thought though don't know if it will translate to paper well.

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This is a 400 year old tree growing from a building in Thailand. I could experiment with different. combinations of architecture and different combinations of nature to see what would create the most. visually pleasing outcome.

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3.  Another architectural thread I had an idea of was combining the structural realms of both building and nature.
I had this idea when thinking about city and city scapes, thinking about words that encapsulate them, and the layering. This lead me to concrete jungle, I then started thinking of combining both architectural designs with the nature part, A genuine concrete jungle.
Having a coexisting structure from the opposite medians.

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I created a final GIF for this graphic, showing the original block and then all the additional parts being built onto of this council block.

Due to unknot reasons it won't let me export the gif, me and my tutor have done everything to try fix this with no success.

this is a web link to view the gif` -

file:///private/var/folders/y9/jxlbjd2566jc0ttxqwfvs9s00000gn/T/TemporaryItems/SaveForWeb/BrowserPreview/BrowserPreview_tmp.html

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I have three concepts deriving from an architectural letter form of Y.

1. creating a tower block esc building in the shape of a Y, as a commentary on the housing crisis. This is something that effects me and a lot of my friends in London due to the vast increase of property prices and vast decrease of space. Creating a building design that has coronations on how I see architecture developing in regards to an ever growing population.
This concept sprung from me 'yearning' for London and thinking of the positives and negatives that surround that place.

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Zegers didn't want to disturb the landscape surrounding him.
'The silence is achieved in part by a nuanced approach to the materials used so that the building seems to rise organically out of the earth. Zegers describes it, ‘a light pavilion suspended over the landscape by steel pillars. We were able to build without making any big gestures.’

This is a good lead for reach to build upon my building thread. I have always imagined using multitude of buildings to create the letterform though I could design my own singular building that resembles the Letter.

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Research - Cazú Zegers’ Y-shaped house  - Research

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Research - Cazú Zegers’ Y-shaped house  - Research

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Architect Cazú Zegers’ found inspiration for his property through the alphabet.
'Having already experimented with ‘T’ and ‘K’ on residential projects'
He has moved onto Y for his home.

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Structurally  resembles the letter Y how the branches start from one solitary line breaking into two counter parts.
This is another thread I will explore, do some sketches and work out new inventive ways to present the tree.
Using negative spaces like Marian Bantjes could be extremely effective for legibility of the Y within the tree.

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I then began to think of yearning in the sense of where I grew up, what I miss about London and what I don't miss.
I then made the connection between the white crane, a bird belong on somewhere new I yearn to go, and a pigeon, a bird belonging to where I grew up London, somewhere I always yearn to be.
A pigeon could be an interesting concept for the letter as most birds fit the profile of the letter Y structurally, this is a bird I am not fond of though when see think of a place I'm ver fond of. A nice juxtaposition.

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The white crane really jumped out to me making a Y shape with its wings and body. This was a strange feeling, as I thought I kept hitting dead ends with this project when brainstorming ideas and it felt as though this Y made of the cranes body was so legible and was so highlighted.

This could be one thread of idea defiantly and something to explore more. Going to do some sketches to see how effective this idea is when translated to paper.

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After searching my conglomorer of words starting with Y, yearning really stood out to me, Ive started to resonate with the idea of creating something relating to a place I yearn to go rather than am fond off.
I started to look at my other words I've collected as well and the only place I have noted down is the, Yangtze River.
I searched it and some amazing photography came up that gripped me. So I started to research the river and quickly fell upon the wildlife it harbours, most famously the white crane.

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These are two of the most famous words starting with Y though are in a way opposites

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Another thread of an idea I had was very visually imposed. After really breaking down the structure of Y and trying to link it to other emotions, buildings, animals etc I started to realise the visual personification Y creates. Having a solitary line rising and branching off into two parallel counter parts, showing growth, having one and producing two.

I really like the idea of linking something to Y to do with growth.
The natural progression and first visual entity that comes to mind after hearing growth, is tress and nature.

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Y is described as an assortment of letting, as if it wasn't meant to exist and has been forced together.
The symbolic meaning is all about educating  yourself and a form of that is from within yourself. All about helping yourself through self reflection, which visuals is extremely interesting, if you strip any meaning from the letter and look at it structurally the letter visualises growing or growth in my opinion.

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I picked this letterform as the counter part of Lise Brains and also the counter part of my initial ideas (buildings and nature). Marian has produced a incising K, the brush of these leafs look almost sporadic in assortment, as if it was an accidental bouquet. This is clearly not the case as the closer you look you start to see this K come the fore front through inverted colouring, to highlight the curtail structuring points. I admire this and wish to create something of this realm in terms of using inverse to highlight.

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I picked this letterform for research as it instantly is attached to one of my initial ideas of architecture. The structure is amazing and the layering of buildings is an idea I had had as that is the perspective you view from ground level in a city. This piece you get an extremely well conducted feeling of being surrounded. The letter is also clearly legible.

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"In Autumn, the cedar trees are shedding their leaves. They lie on the ground in shades from green-yellow-orange-copper. In the right light they glow."

Marian Bantjes is an artist, letterer, designer and writer living off the west coast of Canada. She has published 2 books with Thames & Hudson, I Wonder and Pretty Pictures.

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Lise Brian is Associate Creative Director at The Chase. Lise is one of a rare breed of designers, both creatively talented and exceptional at project and client management. With over 25 years experience, key projects have included the original ethical relaunch of the Co-operative Bank, the launch of smile, and a fresh look for M&S Money.

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looking at words starting with Y linked to my initial  ideas

WATER
- yacht
- Yangtze River.
- Yield - Water Yield is defined as the average amount of fresh water that runs off in an unregulated watershed.

ARCHITECTURE
- A yurt is essentially a tent constructed on top of a flat piece of earth, often covered by carpets. The traditional yurt is white with a red door. The lattice of a traditional yurt is divided into sections, called khana. Each khana is a collapsible series of crisscrossed wooden poles

- Yoke - A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together.

NATURE
- Yarrow - Yew - yucca - Yuzuri-Ha - Are all plants that start with the letter Y.

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Vowel. The form of the modern letter Y is derived from the Greek letter upsilon. The Romans first borrowed a form of upsilon – directly from the Greek alphabet, or from the Etruscan alphabet.

The Romans made two letters out of upsilon – Y and V (see V; W). They only employed Y when writing words derived from Greek but using Roman characters. Thus it did not really enter the Roman alphabet until the 2nd century ad. In modern English ymay represent a consonant or a vowel sound.

"The letter Y is also symbolic of looking within. Inner contemplation. Meditation and inner wisdom. Now is an auspicious time for receiving wisdom from your inner source of Insight/knowledge."

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I think the structure of plants and buildings compliments Y extremely well.
Both things are something I want to explore.
Looking at architecture and looking at nature.

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Looking at my surroundings and finding the letter Y in every day things I see and don't notice the letterforms in.

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- Looking on carrying on the work from first part of the project - looking at water and medians.

- Looking at buildings/ architecture, I live in London surrounded by so many buildings, something I'm fascinated by though feel at home surrounded by.

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Next project - design a letterform that is informed by a place, space or location - letter Y 

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Next project - design a letterform that is informed by a place, space or location - letter Y 

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I have tried numerous, Formats for presenting this letterform though believe its full potential hint been achieved. I have now ventured into Gif and animation. I have made a. animation of the letterform melting and flowing like water trickling down stream, the reason for this is I was inspired to make the letterform after researching Luise Andersen, Water light reflections Movement IV and the letter form was created out of water so create a coherent median.

Gif link file:///private/var/folders/y9/jxlbjd2566jc0ttxqwfvs9s00000gn/T/TemporaryItems/SaveForWeb/BrowserPreview/BrowserPreview_tmp.html

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Moving on from the fashion ad, I thought that the logo would be very strong as the face of a brand, so looked at potential prints on t shirts.
I believe this works extremely well, though could definitely be seen as a band t shirt or something within the world of music.

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I looked at some fashion adverts within some ID magazines I own and thought of using the blend of photography and typeface as a cloths drop as in SS21, I did this as I believe the letterform didn't work amazing as a magazine cover. Though the letterform isn't defining as a fashion drop.
The letterform has a almost dripping silver effect so another alternate idea was for a jewellery brand, I believe this worked better though still doesn't fit perfectly.
I will carry on exploring other formats to present the letterform.

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Usually Magazines have a more simplified bold logo, Mine doesn't fit that description .

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This is my photography, shooting on film with the thick bordered letterform create a very dated look, producing a almost 80s aesthetic which is not what I planned. Going to try my other letterform and maybe another format.

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Testing out one of my letterforms in a magazine stylings.

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This experimentation has given the work a new lice of life.
My using the stencil to create shadow on the water technique, had just been put down to experimentation and to go no further with it, though by using this de select tool it has made that design a favourite and the one I want to carry further.

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Experimenting with the magic wand tool to deselecting certain components in the image EG all the black borders.