Typography week 9

16/3/2016 (Week 9)
Joshua Low Wai Peng (UIU 300 414 734 )
Typography - Type arrangement part 2

lecture: On that day, Mr.Vinod continue teach material from the previous week. Then, he proceeded on requesting student take show him their progress and also gave feedback on how we should and shouldn't do.


Type arrangement (30%)
Task 1 (10%): The Letter
In this task, you will write (type) a single page love letter to your beloved who has been abroad for the last 6 months. The year is 1986, the world wide web or internet isn’t yet available to the masses, however the desktop computer has been invented. Letters are still a popular means to send and receive news. As, such it has been your practice to write one letter a week on your new desktop computer, print it, seal it in an envelop and post it to your beloved. This single page letter must be written sensibly and sensitively.

Your task is to use Adobe Illustrator to format this letter in a classical letter writing format (in the days of old) – when letter writing was done by hand – using a suitable font (or a combination of fonts), and appropriate margins, alignment, point size, leading and line length.

You will be required to print two copies; one without creases or folds, the other for postage. The letter for posting will require an envelop, as such thought must be put into the writing of the address on the envelop. You will post this letter to yourself, and you will bring this letter to class for submission and discussion. You will as always document all the processes, drafts and the final results on your e-portfolio.

 Important reading references:

Purdue: Common Letter Writing Formats
Good Letter Writing: Personal Letter Writing Template Good Letter Writing: Layouts

(Note* If you stumble on some additional references, do share the on our Facebook group).

Marking Criteria: Lorem Ipsum…

 Duration: 2 week
Deadline: week 10    

 Progression:

DIAGRAM 1

For the addresses, i went with the choice font of "Pristina" that was available in adobe.

but for the letter context, i went with the font of "vivaldi italic". i decided to go with both this font is because the letter is written on the year 1986. during that time, not much font was available yet and font are hardly digitized. back then, a type writer machine produces fonts that are square-ish which may make the message not really attractive enough to read. Hence, i went with a more calligraphic type of writing to go along in the letter.

Experience:
choosing the font to go with my message was not really easy. i tried using different kind of combination to go with the letter. finally i decided to go with both of this font because from my point of view it really does go along with the message itself.

Observation:
comparing to the first few time using Illustrator, this time things really went much faster. i think its also because of wordings only and not designing, but also know those button surface better.
Findings:
writing a letter would be a really hipster thing to do in this current generation because everyone uses text message, and email. but letter hold its sentimental value and if i really were to write like this and send to my love one, i think they will really appreciate what I've written down for them. the trend of writing a letter to some one is slowly dying off and letter nowadays are normally bills, information update and so. hopefully the trend of writing a letter will not die of just like this.