Wonderland

I still haven't decided whether or not the typefaces will be a combination of an existing font with illustrative animal details added on, or a completely hand drawn typeface. If I decide on the latter, I really like this colourful, simple style that is shown here on the Wonderland font, hand drawn with felt tip pen by Eve Duhamel.

Carson Ellis

The rake's-song in graphite - album art by Carson Ellis

This gave me the idea of creating type out of twigs, something which I have experimented with before so may try again.

Children's animal alphabet

I don't want my typeface to be too illustrative, but I couldn't resist putting these up that I found from a Vector stock illustrations website; pictures-vector.com

I think if I was aiming it at young children and creating type for a zoo this would work, but maybe not the wildlife park as it doesn't have a vast amount of wild animals that you could associate the letters with, such as e for elephant and m for monkey.

Edholm Ullenius

A good example of how the image doesn't overpower the type by the impact of colour. This is relevant for my illustrative typeface design, because even though I will be involving image, the main priority is providing a legible typeface.

This design is by Sissi Edholm and Lisa Ullenius, two Swedish graphic designers known as Edholm Ullenius:

Screen Print

I found my screenprint tester that I had pictured in my head when I initially came up with this brief. It was designed by a print tutor for us to practice the process with and I love it. A simple font choice with small added detail on it like this could be perfect for the wildlife park as they cannot be too complex and illustrative otherwise the signs and printed materials wouldn't be legible.

Handmade signs

 Hana Highway

These signs I came across on a DesignWorkLife post reminded me of some signage photographs of my own (below) that I have taken from various places I have visited. They have made me think about how my handmade typeface can be applied to the wildlife park signs and with what media.

Saatchi & Saatchi

Typeface for 4Runner Project:

Typeface in context of promotional prints

Linzie Hunter Type

Hand drawn typeface design

I love these maps! When I'm designing my Yorkshire Wildlife Park maps for the visitors, I definitely want them to have this fun, colourful look with my typeface design applied to it.

Fun headings

Hand designed type examples on printed materials and magazines.

Jacqui Oakley

 
Gillian Macleod

Illustrative Typeface V

Monstertype created by Joey Ellis

Illustrative Typeface IV

Sasha Prood's designs have inspired me for my book cover design in the Catherine Alliott brief, but they are also a really good example of unique hand made typefaces for this brief.

Illustrative Typeface III

Jonny Wan's extremely detailed typeface is a good example of how I want each of my letters to be unique within the typeface for YWP.

Playful type

Found these on the port­fo­lio of Ron Thompson, who is cur­rently a Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi LA. They are a really quirky and colourful take on illustrative type.

Design by Jill Howarth - perhaps a little too childish for what I am aiming for but it would be good to achieve the way the illustration is involved within the type so that type is still the main element of the design. I love the giraffe in the 'r'.

Jeremy Pettis

Jeremy Pettis project - 26 types of animals

Illustrative Typeface II

Not animal themed but good inspiration all the same by ilovedust.

Illustrative Typeface I

Decoylab specialises in making unique and decorative clocks but this animal alphabet is a lovely starting point for my animal themed typeface I want to design for the Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

Existing signs

These two signs below are a good example of how they are using type and image on their signs but I want to combine the two and create a typeface with an animal theme. Using silhouettes like they already do is a good way of not letting the detail of the image take over the type.

As well as applying my chosen typeface to the signs, I also want to re-design the map and apply it to that too. I do like the signs as they are now, and they all have a running theme through them, but I think it's a place that has the opportunity for me to use my illustrative type designs over a range of materials and scales to give my designs a purpose.