Creative Typography

Blaydon Races...

Here is the song and lyrics for the Blaydon races, I am inclined to use either the Blaydon races or the Lampton worm as the sing song nature both encasulate the accent and dialect as well as being, happy. If I can create typography which will visulise either of these songs I feel that the accent could be accuratley portrayed.

Possible songs for kinetic typorgraphy experiments

I want to create the same affect as the Blink 182 video, but with a geordie accent, one possiblilty for this is to use a geordie folk song, other options are to create kinetic typography for a conversation, or some sort of instructional annimetion.

There are 2 poosiblities which I am considering for the 'songs', the Lampton Worm and The Bladon races...here are the songs, if i was to do this I would source my own voices to create the background music, but this is the jist...

Kinetic typography

For one of my final outcomes I am aiming to create a piece of kinetic typography which will capture the essence of the accent and dialect in the North East. Here are two excellent examples of kinetic typography which have inspired me...

Jamie Hukkisson

This use of typography highlights that type does not have to be on a flat surface, it can create things, objects, places and landscapes. This type of work could be used to create the landscapes of the northeast.

Danny Dorling

Danny Dorling was educated at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne in Geography, Mathematics and Statistics leading to a PhD in the Visualization of Spatial Social Structure (1991). He continued studying in Social Science at Newcastle as a Joseph Rowntree Foundation and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow before moving to the University of Bristol to teach Geography there, next being appointed to a Chair of Quantitative Human Geography at the University of Leeds.

The type of maps which Danny Dorling produces are both informative and athetically pleasing. The have design aspects to them with the shapes and colour used, though his maps are primarily for imformative reasons.