Neighborhood Alphabet
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The Brief
Create an alphabet of your neighborhood or favorite place
Trim Size
Tabloid/A3
Learning Points
Photographing type
Working with Photoshop masks
Designing with a layout grid
Tools
Lightroom, Photoshop, InDesign, Camera
Inspiration
Why point a camera at an iconic landmark? Do we really need another photo of the Golden Gate Bridge or the Eiffel Tower? If you really want to capture the essence of a place, its true idiosyncrasies, to represent it the way the locals experience it, you need to start with the typography.
The first photographic alphabet I (Nigel) created was a love letter to a place I was about to leave, San Francisco; the next was a love letter to the place ...
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