Typography week 10

23/3/2016 (Week 10)
Joshua Low Wai Peng (UIU 300 414 734 )
Typography - Booklet

Lecture: did not get to attend the class, so i consulted my classmate and ask for further guidance.

Task 2 (20%): The Booklet
Your task requires you to come up with 10-12 lines about your self. The lines can vary in the number of words (1 word, 5 words, 10 words). These lines will be arranged and expressed according to their meanings. Utilize the knowledge gained in all the tasks previously and express yourselves.

The booklet you are creating has 8 pages in all (2 A4 sheets stuck together and divided into halves). The format of the booklet is an accordion fold and affixed on either end with a card-board.

You have to compose your lines on the various pages, using a variety or appropriate fonts/typefaces, and then considering the size, impact of the respective artworks, place them in an appropriate sequence to ensure a healthy variation from page to page.

A demonstration of this shall be conducted in class. How to fold, how to create your illustrator template and how to place the typographic artworks (expressions of the different lines) in illustrator.

You will submit, a hard copy print out and upload the respective JPEGs of the 8 pages in spreads of 2 onto your e-portfolio.

Marking Criteria: Your work will be judged on whether you have been able to express the meaning of your sentences through your typography and layout (arrangement). The layouts must showcase sensitivity and creativity in the choice of font, its arrangement, its relevancy and its suitability in context of the sentences. It must reflect and enhance the inherent meaning of the sentences. 

You must look at the arrangements for all the pages and decide whether the pages look like a cohesive unit, whether there is a level of consistency or variation, so as to avoid monotony or over-consistency.

You will be judged on whether you have demonstrated critical thinking and exploration, research capability, ability to chronologically document your process and reflect on your journey. This evidence must be visible in your postings in the e-portfolio and your in-class process work. 

Duration: 3 weeks

Deadline: week 13

PROCESS:

Trying out in illustrator and still doing some research on more creative way to design a booklet because i feel that this is just to normal and not attractive enough.

thanks to my classmate for teaching me how to prepare the booklet content pages. i managed to do it myself after consulting and seeking advise from my friend! credits to Yin Nee and Elicia!! They also told me that i need to find hard cover for the booklet to produce the final product when its ready.

experience thus far:
its been a very long time since i did a booklet!! the last time i did this is when i was in my art class that i went. it would really be great to have more insight and ideas on how to create a attractive booklet. positioning the font was actually fustrateting at frst because it will look weird without folding the paper. but overall, i think i still need to do more research or find information that may help me further enhancing and create a better booklet!