Studio Brief 1 - Alphabet Soup

Today we were given our first assessed brief, alphabet soup, which requires us to create 10 different letter forms presented in a 10cm x 10cm format. The brief is shown below.

To give us a starting point, we each picked a piece of paper with a word on it out of a jar, and the word we picked had to influence the way we edited the existing letter forms of a font, which was chosen in the same method. The font I have to manipulate is Futura, and I have to do so under the interpretation of the word "vernation", a word I'd never heard before. Fortunately each word came with a dictionary entry, according to which vernation means "the arrangement of bud scales or young leaves in a leaf bud before it opens".

Futura 

I then spent the remaining hour and a half or so doing some preliminary research on the font Futura, and mind-mapping connotations of vernation while trying to link the two together in some way. The only way in which I managed to do so was that vernation is a seemingly very natural thing, whereas Futura is a very blocky, bold and perfect font, and I could try and manipulate the font to look more natural by using the natural connotations of vernation as my influence.

My Initial Spider Diagram About Vernation and Futura