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Met-alphabet

Somewhere between a horseshoe, a piece of machinery, and a rhinestone-studded fever dream, I found an alphabet. Yeeeee-hawwww.

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Met-alphabet

Met-alphabet: A
A
Met-alphabet: B
B
Met-alphabet: D
D
Met-alphabet: F
F
Met-alphabet: H
H
Met-alphabet: M
M
Met-alphabet: N
N
Met-alphabet: O
O
Met-alphabet: O
O
Met-alphabet: R
R
Met-alphabet: T
T
Met-alphabet: W
W
Met-alphabet: X
X
Met-alphabet: Y
Y

Met-alphabet

MET-ALPHABET

Somewhere between a horseshoe, a piece of machinery, and a rhinestone-studded fever dream, I found one.....

Met-alphabet: Inspiration: horseshoe stage
Inspiration: horseshoe stage

You ever seen Beyoncé on stage?

Neither have I. Maybe you have. All I can do is devour whatever crumbs of shaky cellphone footage make it onto YouTube. Bless those people.

Cowboy Carter makes cowboy core feel futuristic and glamorous: polished chrome, glowing horseshoes, rhinestones, fringe, and a little swashbuckling flair. Add some literal spaghetti Western imagery, a little Orville Peck, and a healthy dose of machinery, and I had an excuse to go a little feral.

Met-alphabet: Inspiration: spaghetti Western
Inspiration: spaghetti Western
Met-alphabet: Lotsa reds and yellers
Lotsa reds and yellers
Met-alphabet: Inspiration: vintage Western poster
Inspiration: vintage Western poster
Met-alphabet: Inspiration: silver Western
Inspiration: silver Western
Met-alphabet: Inspiration: silver armor
Inspiration: silver armor

Yee-haw, but make it industrial.

The letters became things to fabricate rather than things to draw. I stretched them, folded them, bent them, layered them, and let them get a little unruly.

Some became heavy and mechanical; others revealed their internal structure.

The question became less How do I make a letter out of metal? and more What would metal look like if it behaved like a ribbon?

Met-alphabet: Inspiration: mirrored horse
Inspiration: mirrored horse

Forged in the West.

The result is an alphabet somewhere between rodeo hardware, industrial machinery, and something that fell out of a spaceship (Beyoncé’s “Alien Superstar,” anyone?).

Met-alphabet: Inspiration: silver hat and boots
Inspiration: silver hat and boots

Ride ’em, typeboy.

A new alphabet, forged somewhere between the frontier and the future.

Client
Self-intiated Personal Project
Year
2022
Skills
typography, lettering, 3D drawing
Tools
Blender, Adobe Photoshop