DING BATS FROM BEHIND BARS
The inspiration for my font came to me the same afternoon the brief was
handed out. A school colleague of mine was arrested for possession, he
served his time and was released back into society where he now works
as a gas attendant at our local Engen garage. When talking to him I noticed
his body covered in a few tattoos.
I decided that this would be my core concept for my typeface. From this I
would formulate a script from the style of prison tattooing . During my
research I discovered that there was no consistent style in which inmates
tattooed letter scripting . Therefore, I decided to produce a dingbat font of
common images that gang members in prison tattooed on each other.
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