Studio Brief 1, Alphabet Soup, Initial Designs

After researching into my word and into the font I began with simple adjustments to some letters I picked. 

1.
I've chosen letters that I think work best with my ideas, such as a capital E. I could see how I would create the idea of capture with the brackets of the letter, I've extended them to create more of an enclosed space, as if that space had been captured.

2. 
Here I've extended the brackets right down to the opposite line of the Z and W because I was thinking of those brackets reaching out and capturing the opponents territory, like in Chess.

3.
With the T I took off the brackets to create a Sans Serif type because I saw it as taking away the brackets captured the Serif.

4. 
I separated the spine of the S with the matching angles of the brackets as if those angles had separated the spine and captured each half. I like this idea and may bring further by playing around with the idea of rope and each bracket being literally caught.

5.
I've separated the A like the S and took off the brackets to create a Sans Serif to follow the T to see what that looks like and if the A holds up on its own. I like the look of this quite a lot I think it's interesting and communicates the idea of capture.

6.
I chose to look at a smaller case 't' because I could see how the tail of the t could curl up and create the idea of something being held, like what was said in my brain storm. 

7.
I was thinking of capturing in the context of photography and thought about the colours used, so if i were to use colours which one if any? I personally don't like this one and don't want to use colour because I think it looks underdeveloped and tacky.

8.
I was thinking of photography and ways the camera shows things, so thought of picking a letter like P and zooming in on it, like a close up shot. I think P works well because even close up it's still easy to see what it is. 

9.
I thought of the idea of things capturing each other, as if they were catching each other and need one another to survive. So with this A I took the crossbar out, which is normally quite vital and let the other sides fall to each other. The brackets work on this one because that looks like more support for the two sides.