The personality traits I responded to was Maya's background as up until last year she lived in Dubai so I chose an Arabic style font, which needed softening up as it was a little harsh to start with.
The result appears to be effective in the fact that the typeface is related to Maya on a more personal level as it focusses on her background, and represents her as an individual, the typeface is just a stroke as if it had have been filled in it would not be appropriate and would lose the femininity.
Some of the people in my presentation liked my end typeface they thought it was completely different to other work on the walls, someone did pull my idea apart about the way some of the letters were, this is something I had picked up on earlier, but to change it would have lost the Arabic feel.
My tutor, liked my idea, she said it was ambitious and inventive, however, she felt it would be better as a brush stroke rather than trying to draw it, as it doesn't give much freedom and fluidity. The action points I were given were experimenting with solid colour, uppercase letters and maybe re-working some of them.
One of my main weaknesses, were my glyphs, in the Afarat font the glyphs were quite strange so I found it hard to work with them, another particular weakness was quality of line.
I thoroughly enjoyed this brief, it was interesting and challenging, and helped me to realise an idea can be good and seen through to the end with a pleasing outcome, even if I don't think it will.
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