Fact or Fiction?

We live in a media driven world, whether we’re aware of it or not. The media influences our lives and whether we like it or not, our ideas and thoughts are constructed from media interpretation. As young design students, it is important for us to stay closely linked with the media and retain awareness in the current social and political world because it is our job to react to the current issues and ideas communicated to us. However our role is to also be mindful of the honesty in what is depicted to us and reinterpret them. The media is constantly stretching our trust and has us questioning; what is fiction and what is fact?
The font presented is called “fact or fiction” as it challenges the notion of what is real and what is fabricated in our media today. The font takes this term “fabrication” literally and is constructed with clustered nonsensical stitches, resulting in a visually deteriorating type design. This acts as a metaphor for the level of uncertainty when faced with ideas and notions brought about by the media. The viewer is forced to question whether the type character actually exists as it begins to crosses the line into abstraction.

My typography outcome lead me to integrate the font graphically in a form of media itself; Magazine.

I decided the magazine should be a textiles magazine titled 'STITCH'. Using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign i created a cover, contents page, double spread and spine design to suit the concept of promoting a textile designer (Sian Power) in the form of a textile magazine (Stitch).