Advanced Typography /Exercise
01.04.2022~ 01.05.2022 ( Week 01 ~ Week 05)
Lum Qian Tong 0344309 Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Advanced Typography
Task 1/ Exercise
All of the notes needed for this task are listed below :
All of the notes needed for this task are listed below :
Lecture
Week 1
Task 1/ Exercise 1: Typographic Systems
Purpose of typographic systems is provided more emphasis , guide decision-making to communicate with users. Besides, in this project we need to pay more attentions on the fundamental knowledges. For example, line-heights may even influence many other structural elements like spacing and grids. Typography is often one of the foundational components you will want to get a handle on as it will need to work harmoniously with other elements.
There are 8 important Typographic Systems :
1. Axial ~ All elements are organised to the left or right of a single axis.
Figure 1 Axial
2. Bilateral ~All text is arranged symmetrically on a single axis.
Figure 2 Bilateral
Figure 3 Diatational
4. Grid ~A system of vertical or horizontal divisions.
Figure 4 Grid
5. Modular ~A series of non-objective elements that are constructed as a standardised unit.
Figure 5 Modular
6. Radial ~ All elements are extended from a point of focus.
Figure 6 Radial
Figure 7 Random
8. Transitional ~An informal system of layered banding.
Figure 8 Transitional
Instruction
My Decision
All Ripped Up: Punk Influences on Design
- All Ripped Up:
- Punk Influences on Design
- The Design School,Taylor’s University
- Open Public Lectures:
- Lecture Theatre 12
- June 24, 2021
[Ezrena Mohd., 10am−11am]
[Suzy Sulaiman, 11am−12pm]
- June 25, 2021
[Fahmi Reza, 10am−11am]
[William Harald-Wong, 11am−12pm]
My Sketch
Figure 9 My Rough Ugly Sketch (05.04.22)
~I still don't have any ideas, but I'm starting to digitalize some of these sketches so I can get inspiration along the way.
Figure 10 Inspiration of Dilational Typographic System (05.04.22)
Figure 11 First Attempt (09.04.22)
~After Mr Vinod 's feedback ,I had know how I have to improve and adjust .
My Final Outcome
Figure 12 Final Atempt [Axial] (09.04.22)
Figure 13 Final Outcome [Bilateral] (16.04.22)
Figure 14 Final Outcome "Monster" [Diatational] (16.04.22)
Figure 15 Final Outcome [Grid] (16.04.22)
Figure 16 Final Outcome [Modular] (16.04.22)
Figure 17 Final Outcome [Random] (09.04.22)
Figure 18 Final Outcome [Radial] (15.04.22)
Figure 19 Final Outcome “Sustain” [Transitional] (16.04.22)
Figure 20 Final Outcome (16.04.22)
PDF File of Final Outcome (16/04/2022)
PDF File of Final Outcome with grid
Task 1/ Exercise 2: Type and Play (Part 1)
~ We are going to find 4 letters from any image and refine them.
Figure 21 (16.04.22)
~ The letters I found in this image are A, B, C, D, E, G, I, L, M, P, R, S, T, U,W, X & Y
Figure 21.1 Letters found & Letters that traced out (08.04.22)
Figure 21.2 Letters that traced out (09.04.22)
Figure 21.3 Typeface reference (09.04.22)
Figure 22 Explore /Compare (23.04.22)
Figure 23 Final Attempt with guides (23.04.22)
Figure 23.2 Letter 'A' (23.04.22)
Figure 23.3 Letter 'B' (23.04.22)
PDF File of Final Outcome (Part 1) (24/04/2022)
Task 1 Exercise 2: Type and Image (Part 2)
~This task we will combine visual with words or sentence. The aim is to enhance the interplay between the selected visual and the words.
Figure 25.1 "Sophie Poster" My Chosen Image (24/4/2022)
Figure 25.2 My First Attempt (25/4/2022)
Figure 25.3 Bigger The Image (25/4/2022)
Figure 25.4 My Second Attempt (30/4/2022)
~I had doing the shadow/ reflection .
My Final Outcome
Figure 24 Final Attempt (30/4/2022)
Feedback
Week 2
Specific &General Feedback:
- Axial : Align to the side. All information must be align and follow the line.
- Bilateral : Letter spacing too much on top and bottom too little . Never use outline for text .
- Dilatational : The outer section is not dilatational. It does’t look like one circle or two circle. Generally , it should be one circle and then another circle . Other than that the center is fine.
- Grid :Outline is not allow in text. The two line under the title are not reason putting there. Make sure to have a good alignment. l have a lot of different leading .It should be consistent throughout .
- Modular ："All ripped up” and “Punk in design” should be treated similarly and related. The mistake putting the body text and headline.
- Radial ：It all had to be pointing toward one point. Mine look like pointing somewhere else .It can be many point but it must be pointing in one point.
- Random : It is ok .Not bad
- Transitional ：Good .Not bad
Week 3
General Feedback: ~Finding a typeface reference is a good way in order for us to design a better typeface.
Personal Feedback: ~Did not present my work( have not got inspiration)Week 4
General Feedback: ~I not getting there the shoes. It's an interesting eclectic .If I base my shapes exactly on what I extracted I're going to have problems with it like what I having right now. The extraction would work if the item is repetitive in nature but in my case it's not repetitive because I got different shape that's why it doesn't work .I can use Abigail 's crystal as reference
Week 5
General Feedback: ~.It does strangely kind of work with the weirdness of the picture in a strange way because it's a strange picture so I'll just let it go the way it is but it's not really integrated but in a way one could argue because with strangeness it is integrated.
Week7
General Feedback: ~Exercise 1: Exciting work, well done. Exercise 2: FT good attempt, T&I is strange and acceptable. Format your feedback properly below.
Reflection
Experience: I had learned how to make some aesthetic layouts by using the basics typography formats such as the leading, point size and alignments .I love the way to design the information to people and it is really more eye-catching. In exercise2, I enjoy to blend the letters in our life because I had a creative thinking skills. Mr.Vinod had teached me using the object's features to design a letter and this idea had helped a lot in exercise2 part 1 and I love the results.
Observation: I had noticed observation and knowledge improved a lot .Because I had explore a lot of design and learning how to using other ideas to create our own design .There 's a saying goes, to steal ideas from someone is plagiarism; to stealing from many is research.
Finding :I would like to follow senior as my role model like Jia Sheng, Tressa and so on.
Further Reading
Reference
1.Simon Garfield (2010). Just My Type. 3A Exmouth House Pine Street, Exmouth Market London.
Just My Type's Book Cover (2010)
Simon Garfield's Just My Type is a new and insightful reference book for both type novices and design techies. In the context of history and culture, he explores both common and unusual typographic issues. It introduce Comic Sans on pages 17 to 24 of the book, one that looks nice but is actually written by an 11-year-old. If you see a word with a different colour for each letter, it's usually Comic Sans. Not only that, but he uses different fonts to highlight key points in the book, which is very interesting and well worth reading.
Figure 26 Some of the page talk about Comic Sans
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