Charlie Armstrong
I am a design student with ambitions to be a design professional. I am a type-smith, my work is mostly type based and centres around type design. My inspirations for type faces have included: jigsaw puzzles, neon tubing, chain link fencing, piles of newspaper, ancient Mesoamerican civilisations and 16th century Spanish explorers.
I strive to create type faces that are engaging and meaningful. I like them to express themselves clearly and simply, I want them to challenge the notions of what a type face is and what it can do. If you’re in a tight spot, I might have a type face for you, or at least one that sympathises with the situation.
Although type design is the main thrust of my work, I make myself busy with print making, film, animation and photography, I go back to type because it is the purest, simplest form of graphic expression and infinitely functional.
- charliearmstrong@hotmail.com
- 07977136523
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Conquistador Type – Inspired by 16th Century Spanish colonisation of Central America.
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Aztechy Type – Inspired by ancient Mesoamerican civilisations.
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Special Ops Face
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Fence Face – Inspired by chain-link fencing.
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Line Type – inspired by neon sign writing and my left hand.
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Michael Buble Type – an attempt to create the simplist expression of type using cicles.
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Snooker Type – inspired by modular letterforms with the aim to express themselves with singular economy and simplicity.
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Blok Type – Inspired by modular jigsaw puzzles.
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Stack Type – inspired by piles of newspapers.
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Generic Serif light italic- with ‘spinny’ type treatment (heavy).
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Jean le Loup performed live by Black Manila Beach Parade.
The song is inspired by an incident with a neighbour who had developed a drug addiction, a fact that became very apparent when he showed up at the house late one night asking to borrow money.
The band are:
Conrad Armstrong (bass, vocals)
Gareth Hoskins (guitar)
Henry Gibbs (vocals, percussion)
Liam Ramsden (drums)
The film was shot at Passing Clouds, Dalston.
The film deals with the relationship between the inanimate instruments and equipment on stage before the gig and the contrast the stage has during the performance where the musicians give movement and sound to their equipment. The idea for this approach came out of my desire to utilise a video technique that blends the pixels of film footage. The result being that the static footage of instruments and the stage before the gig become broken and pixelated by the movement and energy of the band’s performance. The performance footage is entirely monochrome which adds another level of contrast to the colour footage of the empty stage.
Film by: Charlie Armstrong © 2009Jean Le Loup – Black Manila Beach Parade
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Abraham Lincoln – design for lino cut.
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Abraham Lincoln – lino cut.
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Abraham Lincoln – lino cut print.
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Lewis Powell – sketch for etching plate print.
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David Herold – sketch for etching plate print.
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Michael O’laughlin – sketch for etching plate print.
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Samuel Arnold – sketch for etching plate print. All above sketches depict conspiritors involved in the Lincoln assassination 1865.
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Bins through the ages – the evolution and design of refuse recepticals.
