Anxious
Apr 12 2010
Title Design/ Animation: Television Show
Three of Change/ Discovery Science Channel
This was a quick job for a new show described to me as an 'anxiety' version of 'hoarders'. Sounds compelling.
This was a super-fast turnaround and they knew exactly what they wanted for the title: a less-is-more concept of white on black. Focusing on the idea that it would be hand made and rough, instead of using a font, the text was hand written. It was important to me to get a lot of texture out of the type, because it would be the only visible element on the screen. For that I drew all of the letters, and many variations of which, on paper towels. Making sure to make the marks slowly, the ink bled very well.
Safely scanning the paper towel text at an extremely high resolution, I then experimented with the paper towels by soaking them in water and other things that would make the ink run and spread. None of that actually looked very rough so I didn't bother using any of those variations.
