ART 304 - Typography I

Instructor: Bradley Coulter

Spring 2025

This project's goal was to design a non-latin alphabet using the application FontStruct to use in an illuminated manuscript. I based my alphabet off of an imaginary sea-faring culture, with curved symbols that represent different parts of ships, such as an anchor, a keel, and a stern. I designed the alphabet as a system by sharing assets with other letters to create a uniform set of letters. The illuminated manuscript was based off of the cover of the 2003 album "Room on Fire" by the Strokes. The text laid out is an excerpt from the song "Reptillia" off of the same album.

“The room is on fire as she’s fixing her hair

You sound so angry, just calm down, you found me

I said: ‘please don’t slow me down if I’m going too fast’

You’re in a strange part of our town”