2/3/2016 (Week 3)
JOSHUA LOW WAI PENG (UIU 300 414 734)
Typography
WEEK 3 continuation of assignment
lecture: On Wednesday, Mr.vinod went with a brief summary of what we were doing last week and will be using that material to continue this week's progress as it was a 2 weeks on going assignment and also what were we going to do on that day. Then, he proceeded on reviewing our work. he steadily go through everyone's font and giving feedback and advise on how the font should look like, how it should been and how to draw it out correctly in a simple and faster way. after the private 1 on 1 session with students, he then continue his lecture by asking student to start up their laptops and open up the software needed which was Ai(adobe illustrator). After everyone was ready, he then proceed on showing step by step on how to draw a letter using the particular Ai software. after the guide session given by Mr.vinod, he required students to practice and learn up most of the things that he taught so that student can question him about things that they do not know about. it was a 30 minutes error and learning session before ending the lecture session.
The videos below should be viewed at a later stage of the task, when students are more knowledgeable and ready to digitize their letters.
Marking criteria: You will be judged on your creativity; the aesthetics of your letter and how consistent are they with regard to their character or personality – do they look like a family of characters. You will be judged on whether you have made the appropriate research and analysis of other typefaces, whether you have demonstrated critical thinking and exploration. This evidence must be visible in your postings in the eportfolio and your in-class process work.
Duration: 2 weeks
Deadline: week 3
Deadline: week 3
Type expression (20%)Task 1: Identify 6 words that describe you. You will then express typographically the meaning of these words without the aid of a visual. You are only allowed to manipulate the type to express the inherent meaning of the chosen words.
Draw two 7cm squares on an A4 graph paper using a pencil. Ensure the boxes are centered vertically and horizontally in the A4 paper. Do the same for two other sheets of paper to obtain 6 squares in total.
Draw and express you respective words. Upon approval digitize your artworks using Adobe Illustrator and print them out. Update your eportfolio throughout the task and ensure every aspect of the process is documented methodically.
Marking criteria: Your work will be judged on whether you have been able to capture the meaning or action of the chosen words through your designs. The designed words in the type expression task must showcase sensitivity in balance, proportion and composition. It must reflect the inherent meanings of the words. You will be judged on whether you have demonstrated critical thinking and exploration. This evidence must be visible in your postings in the eportfolio and your in-class process work.
WEEK 3 PROGRESS:
DIAGRAM 1
This was my font that i came up with. the feedback that i got from Mr.vinod was the font looks fine but he wanted the font to be in a more simpler way by removing more dots. therefore the first from the top was my final font lining up as the second one from the top was having too many dots in it. then i proceed on letting Mr.Vinod to check my work again before proceeding and he gave me the green light to proceed.
DIAGRAM 2
this was my first rendering after i finished. i then message Mr. Vinod to get some feedback on what i'm currently doing. He suggested me to align the dots properly and moving the "a" tail to the side to make it look more tidy.
this was my first rendering after i finished. i then message Mr. Vinod to get some feedback on what i'm currently doing. He suggested me to align the dots properly and moving the "a" tail to the side to make it look more tidy.
DIAGRAM 3
TADAAA!! this was my final rendering of my own font. it does look better after tidying up the dots spacing between the line and also moving the "a" tail to the side(thanks sir for the suggestion!hehe).
TADAAA!! this was my final rendering of my own font. it does look better after tidying up the dots spacing between the line and also moving the "a" tail to the side(thanks sir for the suggestion!hehe).
Feedback:
1.Font looks fine but Sir wanted the font to be in a more simpler way by removing more dots. therefore the first from the top was my final font lining up as the second one from the top was having too many dots in it.
2. he also suggested me to align the dots properly and moving the "a" tail to the side to make it look more tidy.
Reflection
Experience:
Learning about different fonts allows me to gain more knowledge about origin of different fonts. in each fonts lies a different message that it would like to bring forth. i was able to draft out some of my own fonts and might put it into use. it may be another challenging task for me to pull through, but in each time during the learning process i pick up skills to think, draw, create something out of nothing. There are so many fonts out there which u can just find, and the hardest part is to create another font of yours. But in the end, i think that i did a fairly nice job in creating my own font which looks much more simple and easier to be read.
2. he also suggested me to align the dots properly and moving the "a" tail to the side to make it look more tidy.
Reflection
Experience:
Learning about different fonts allows me to gain more knowledge about origin of different fonts. in each fonts lies a different message that it would like to bring forth. i was able to draft out some of my own fonts and might put it into use. it may be another challenging task for me to pull through, but in each time during the learning process i pick up skills to think, draw, create something out of nothing. There are so many fonts out there which u can just find, and the hardest part is to create another font of yours. But in the end, i think that i did a fairly nice job in creating my own font which looks much more simple and easier to be read.
Observation:
I still find myself not satisfy with the draft outcome because it wasn't drawn nicely.(kill me please). i think that is the cause of wanting to finishing something in a perfect way. i tried to draw lines by free hand and the out come was better than i expected it to be. at the end of the final font, i feel that it looks much more better comparing to the one i did previously and it may seems easy to draw it out in the iluustrator, but the allignment of the letters ain't easy as u have to really align it properly according to the grids.
I still find myself not satisfy with the draft outcome because it wasn't drawn nicely.(kill me please). i think that is the cause of wanting to finishing something in a perfect way. i tried to draw lines by free hand and the out come was better than i expected it to be. at the end of the final font, i feel that it looks much more better comparing to the one i did previously and it may seems easy to draw it out in the iluustrator, but the allignment of the letters ain't easy as u have to really align it properly according to the grids.
Findings:
My freehand drawing is having some slight improvement as mentioned previously, i rely a lot on tools that is available. also i'm able to do things my own way for instants, using my own way to draw,create new patterns that is needed to accomplish the task given. Also, i really love this font i may be putting it to use in the future, maybe?? well overall it was a great experience to develop my own font and also get to polish back what ive forgotten in using illustrator.
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