Typography - Final Compilation & Reflection

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23.09.2024 - 23.12.2024 / Week 1 - Week 14

Brenda Wynn / 0372128

Typography / Bachelors of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Final Compilation & Reflection


JUMP LINKS

TASK 1

Week 1 - Week 5 (23/09/2024 - 21/10/2024)
Exercise 1 :
Figure 1.1 final revised type expression digitalization (15/10/2024, week 4)


Figure 1.2 final revised type expression digitalization ver. PDF (15/10/2024, week 4)


Figure 1.3 final type expression animation (15/10/2024, week 4)

Week 4 - Week 5 (16/10/2024 - 21/10/2024)
Exercise 2 :
Figure 2.1 final text formatting with no grids (22/10/2024, week 5)

Figure 2.2 final text formatting with grids (22/10/2024, week 5)
Figure 2.3 final text formatting with grids and without grids pdf (22/10/2024, week 5)
Formatting details:

HEAD LINE
Typeface: Bodoni Std
Font: Bodoni Std Bold
Type Size: 43 pt
Leading: 45 pt
Paragraph spacing: 0
 
SUB-HEADING
Typeface: Bodoni Std
Font: Bodoni Std Book
Type Size: 18 pt
Leading: 20 pt
Paragraph spacing: 0

BODY
Typeface: Bodoni Std
Font: Bodoni Std Book
Type Size: 11 pt
Leading: 13 pt
Paragraph spacing: 13 pt
Characters per-line: 60
Alignment: left align
Margins: 50 mm bottom, 20 mm top, 10 mm left + right
Columns: 4
Gutter: 5 mm

TASK 2

Week 5 - Week 7 (21/10/2024 - 04/11/2024)
Figure 3.1 final type formatting and expression result (05/11/2024, week 7)

Figure 3.2 final type formatting and expression result with grids (05/11/2024, week 7)

Figure 3.3 final type formatting and expression result with and without grids pdf (05/11/2024, week 7)
Formatting details:

HEAD LINE
Typeface: Serifa Std
Font/s: Serifa Std - 55 Roman, Serifa Std - Bold ("BUILD")
Type Size/s: 48 pt (not including "BUILD")
Leading: 50 pt (not including "BUILD")
Paragraph spacing: 0

BODY
Typeface: ITC New Baskerville Std
Font/s: ITC New Baskerville Std - Roman
Type Size/s: 10 pt
Leading: 12 pt
Paragraph spacing: 12 pt
Characters per-line: 55
Alignment: left justified
Margins: 10 mm top + left + right + bottom
Columns: 2
Gutter: 5 mm


TASK 3

Link to download font:

Figure 4.1 side-bearings and kerning final result on FontLab (19/12/2024, week 13)

Figure 4.2 final font result from Illustrator jpeg (19/12/2024, week 13)

Figure 4.3 final font result from Illustrator pdf (19/12/2024, week 13)

Ascender : 741 pt
Descender : -215 pt
Cap height : 704 pt
X-height : 355 pt

Figure 4.4 final poster design jpeg (19/12/2024, week 13)

Figure 4.5 final poster design pdf (19/12/2024, week 13)

REFLECTION

Experience
When I first went to class, I felt rather nervous since I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to follow the lessons. But after a few weeks of classes, I was able to get a better understanding on how the projects on this module will go on. I was also surprised that I was able to pick up a lot of skills on how to operate the Adobe software, since I was new to using Adobe. Though there is still room for error, since I have not yet mastered my skills on Adobe.

Throughout this semester, in this module I have come to appreciate the importance of typography. I realized that there was much more typography around us. I have also come to notice that designing or working with typography was not an easy task. Though, I have enjoyed the process of working with typography and I have also learned a lot more rules that needs to be adapted when we are working or designing with typography. I can't wait to learn more about typography and to improve my skills to become better at typography.

Observations
During the 14 weeks that I have learned about typography, I have noticed some lacking features I have that needs to be worked on more. One of the things that I lacked was my technical skills in general. Although I have learned a lot about the different tools and also how to operate them, I just can't seem to get it right. But, I have also noticed that one of the most efficient way that I can get better at my technical skills is by experimenting. I realized when I was making the tasks given, I was able to pick up the knowledge better if I kept practicing and experimenting it over and over again. Though if I could do something earlier on the module is to spare more time to explore the software and experiment more on how to use the tools. Because even though I was able to quickly pick-up skills, I did not spare enough time to do so. So to get better at my technical skills, I will try to spare more time to experiment with the software tools,

Findings
This module has taught me a lot about the rules that is needed to create good typography, how to make a text connect to the headline, etc. I have also learned that I can improve my technical skills better by experimenting a lot in my spare time. So far, I have been trying to spare some time to improve on my technical skills by practicing every time I get to.

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