Aidan Dunbar

Working individually, produce a series of images that represent letters with the eventual aim of creating a photographic alphabet. You don’t need to have all the letters, but obviously if you can do it then that’s great. Photoshop is allowed to rotate and crop etc. to enhance the meaning of your images but keep it minimal. Try to steer clear of found letters, all image must be on the computer and read to present to the group at 2PM.

Take a look at these artists for inspiration - Lisa Reinnermann, Dave Gorman w/ Eine and Abba Richman. You may wish to use these letters as part of further projects in the future, so keep that in mind while photographing.

There were more examples shown, but I can’t remember which they were. In any case, check out David Airey’s blog about similar alphabets.

I shot this alphabet in a relatively short period of time (along with a few more less complete themes such as road lettering, which may be completed soon) with the aim of creating a visually entertaining piece that was interesting to look at. Graffiti is the perfect medium for this because of the bright colours that are often used, and the great variety in styles used to make a mark on the urban landscape.

It’s a bit of a shame that all these letters were within a five minute walk of the Art College, plastered across the backs of fast food restaurants and on bridges and postboxes, but that’s what you get in a city I suppose.