Students were asked to research the origins of typographic symbols and letter forms and consider how punctuation is used today and historically. Then decide the action their glyph must perform. Students should start by sketching out potential symbols for this action, before creating their glyph using Adobe Illustrator, Indesign or any other software of their preference.
Their glyph might:
Fix an abbreviation (‘imo’, ‘btw’) into a single mark (example: et becomes &)
Help the reader navigate through a body of text
Obscure unpronounced letters
Provide clues on how a word is spoken / pronounced
Group together letters that often come next to each other (‘-ing’, ‘-est’)
Students:
Top row (from left to right): Shannon Dunn, Jasmine Wesley, Olivia Meitz
Middle row (from left to right): Robben Burdick, Jasmine Wesley, Elijah Wright-Jefferson
Bottom row (from left to right): Hannah Neal, Alyssa Pavlick, Zack Miller