Final 10 Intervene designs

Experimented with my 'interventions' interrupting the joining of the bowl and leg of the letter. I widened the points where they would meet to suggest motion coming to a halt.

Vertical Stripe idea inspired by the idea that referees intervene during situations in sports. I chose vertical stripes as it is what style shirt referees are known to wear.

Idea based on the police force. I strengthened the terminal at the top left, and lengthened the leg (representing the long arm of the law). I also added a police style band around the base of the stroke.

When researching 'intervene', the U.S 'intervention' of syria came up frequently. I looked into arabic letterforms and tried to recreate the calligraphic style on this R. I changed the line weights to make it look like it was written by a fountain pen, made the terminal more 'flicky' and made the bases of the legs slanted again to make it look more handwritten. 

I decided to experiment on different letterforms. Here I took a G, to see how I could manipulate it. I created this design which has the spur of the G elongated to cut through the bowl. This creates a paradoxical style which I like where an earlier stage of the letter is interrupted by a later part.

Modifying an X, here I looked into how i write the letter. When I write this letter, my pen goes top to bottom on each diagonal stroke, so I decided to create this design, which has the second stroke intervene the first at an earlier point. This however unbalanced the letter, so I added dots which get larger as they travel up the letter, which helped to push it back up and make it more stable. 

Looking into Polish and Russian letterforms, I noticed that some of the letters have bars which intersect them. Although they are meant to change the pronunciation of the letter, I figured that I could apply them to my letters without them being needed to be pronounced differently because of them not being in our alphabet. 

Looking into different meanings of intervene, I thought about interventions and what they're usually associated with. People I asked immediately spoke about drug usage, so I produced this very literal representation of that, with a syringe being one of the legs of the R. 

Experimenting with the strength of lines, the bolder line is usually seen as the strongest, so I turned this on it's head here with the lighter line cutting through the thicker one. I then added some weight to the lighter stroke with smaller lines that run parallel with it. I felt that this helped balance the letter out as it looked weak in the centre with a large portion of the letter removed. 

Here I used a simple manipulation, but I feel that it's an effective one. Cutting the letter along a diagonal plane shows an intervention in it's production similar to when something is moved whilst being photocopied. This manipulation could be applied to all letterforms and glyphs easily and is still legible. This will be the design which I carry forward into the Illustrator brief.