Dave

Dave Crossland grew up in South West England in the 1990s. Combining his visual interests in computers and visual art - Dave decided to BA interaction design at Ravensbourne College in London. David graduated in 2006 and became fascinated with
the potential of software freedom for Graphic Design and typography.Dave went on to study for his MA in Typeface design and graduated in 2009. Dave' student project called 'Cantarell' was included in the launch of Google Fonts and was chosen as a default user interface font for GNOME.

From 2011 up until now Dave is now:
> consulting for Google Fonts in England
> participating for Font Forge project
> Offering lectures on type design with free software

Dave Crossland introduced our class to a new way of creating typefaces using free software - Font Forge.
Our first stage of the process was to free hand draw/sketch the letters 'noa' - the reason was because these 3 letters consist of having the shape outlines of the rest of the letters in the alphabet.

> C = Contrast
> R = Repetition
> A = Alignment
> P = Proportion

Using Dave' help, we were taught that when creating a typeface we must look at 4 different elements - including Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proportion. My examples are shown above - it shows my process!

As a class we then showed each other and Dave our final outcomes - these sketches we made in 5 minutes.

Dave introduced us to a free software called 'Font Forge' and gave us a quick session on how to use the program. It was very useful and we used the sketches we done as a base for how we would design our type. Dave also has a youtube channel where he gives tutorials on how to use Font Forge.