Week Five:
“Block of Type” is a project that should encourage further investigation of type in a very limited area.
This project in the past has had many names such as “Type Detective” and “Font Hunt.”
You are expected to document an area (or a city block) or area thereabouts that is rich with Typography. *Typefaces that have been forgotten or has become part of the environment or is required for the benefit of society. Nothing is off limits in this exercise. Document type that you find of interest.
Just go out and find a city block area (can be rural as well) and document the typography you find in that very specific area. Make it fun. Carry your favorite pal with you and just enjoy some time outside documenting with a camera the fonts/typefaces that you are aware of...it can be large areas (advertisements) or small areas of type (chewing gum wrappers, discarded stamps or letters, old pencils with type, discarded packaging, etc.) Make it a game of sorts. The idea is to make yourself more aware of everyday type that surrounds yourself.
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