A personal project I worked on for the annual 36 Days of Type challenge. Each day contestants must design, or animate a letter of the alphabet and numbers 0-9 over every day for 36 days. This was the first time iI had entered and I admit it was quite a challenge to animate a letter every day on top of daily work and life, but still got as far as Z but not the numbers.

I chose the typeface Chunky Junk by Sombrero Craft as a base, each letter seemed to have a personality or a character waiting to be brought to life. The hardest part was then to find a way the animation then related to a theme beginning with the particular letter.

Overall I enjoyed the challenge, it’s purpose was to think quickly, loosen up free of any commercial requirements or rules, explore what could be achieved in a very short space of time, working with very limited options. I owed a lot of creative ideas to my son (9 yrs) who could see an animal within the shape of a letter which is missed and who helped me all the way through, and was also a tough critic to keep things on track.

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