Typeface Design- Material alphabet

My paper read “Long and Short“. So inspired by it, I found some bamboo skewers at The Garden of Eden and decided to crop them in different sizes to create the notion of something longer or shorter in my alphabet.

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Experimenting with it, and after some feedback I realized the letters would look clearer and have a stronger effect if the sticks were pulled closer and avoiding the exaggeration in sizes between each stick:

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When the whole alphabet was  finished and the pictures of every letter where took, we worked with them in  and Illustrator. At first it was quite challenging and it meant countless tries to figure everything out. However, I did enjoy using these programs and my alphabet once edited, turned out a lot better than I expected since my first impression with the bamboo skewers.

  1. Photoshop version (scaling the letters, image adjustments, etc.)

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2.  Illustrator (image trace, expanding, fill coloring to delete the background..)

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