TYPOGRAPHY - EXERCISES
TYPOGRAPHY - EXERCISES.
WEEK 1 - WEEK 4
(17, April 2020 - 08, May 2020)
Angdio Nagarico (0340052)
Typography
Exercise 1 and Exercise 2: Type Expression & Type Formatting
LECTURES.
LECTURE 1:
"Introduction"
Mr. Vinod has given us a video about the introduction of typography and also an exercise for the first meeting (online) for our class. We have to create a sketch 6 different words and create a typeface by how the words mean itself. The words that I have chosen are LOUD, HIDDEN, LOVE, DISAPPEAR, FLY, and DROWN. We also need to digitalize the sketches by only using the 9 typefaces that Mr. Vinod has given us.
LECTURE 2:
24/04/2020 - WEEK 2
"Feedbacks"
This week is all about giving feedback for the first exercise, we were divided into 4 groups and showing our work one by one. Mr. Vinod and Mr. Shamsul have given us feedbacks in progressing our first exercise so we can create better work for this assignment.
LECTURE 3:
01/05/2020 - WEEK 3
No lectures were given due to public holidays but Mr. Vinod still creating his own short feedback session meeting from 8:30 - 9:30.
24/04/2020 - WEEK 2
"Feedbacks"
This week is all about giving feedback for the first exercise, we were divided into 4 groups and showing our work one by one. Mr. Vinod and Mr. Shamsul have given us feedbacks in progressing our first exercise so we can create better work for this assignment.
LECTURE 3:
01/05/2020 - WEEK 3
No lectures were given due to public holidays but Mr. Vinod still creating his own short feedback session meeting from 8:30 - 9:30.
LECTURE 4:
08/05/2020 - WEEK 4
"Letter Formatting"
Week 4 is all about letter formatting, Mr. Vinod and Mr. Shamsul taught us about letter formatting on Adobe InDesign such as how to create a name card using Adobe InDesign and also how to create and edit an article that we have created before, we also learned the difference between letter spacing and kerning and how to letter space a word and kerning a word. We were also given a task to create 3 or 4 different types of our own name cards and also create our own article by using Adobe InDesign.
INSTRUCTION.
EXERCISE 1.
Week 1 - Week 2 (17/04/2020 - 24/04/2020) - Exercise 1.
Expressing 6 words by the meaning of the words.
The words:
- LOUD
- DROWN
- HIDDEN
- LOVE
- DISAPPEAR
- FLY
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| fig. 1.1 Exercise 1 final work JPEG. |
fig 1.2 Exercise 1 final work PDF.
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fig. 1.3 LOUD GIF JPEG.
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fig. 1.4 LOUD GIF PDF.
EXERCISE 2.
Week 3 - Week 4 (01/05/2020 - 08/05/2020) - Exercise 2.
Creating name card and designing articles using InDesign.
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| fig. 2.1 Name Card JPEG. |
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| fig. 2.2 Article 2 JPEG. |
fig. 2.3 InDesign work PDF.
FEEDBACKS.
17/04/2020
Week ONE: (Introduction)
General Feedback - Mr. Vinod reminds us to label our blog and edit our blog as similar as possible to how Mr. Vinod told us to do and Mr. Shamsul teaches us how to design and edit using adobe illustrator.
Specific Feedback- No specific feedback given by Mr. Vinov and Mr. Shamsul in this week.
24/04/2020
Week TWO:
General Feedback - Mr. Vinod keeps on reminding us to take a better picture next time when you want to post the picture into the vlog and another thing that Mr. Vinod says is about excuses for not finishing the work after the deadline, never use the word forgotten to do your work.
Specific Feedback - Mr. Vinod and Mr. Shamsul have given me some useful feedback to redo my first exercise, the first feedback is instead of screen capture the final work better to save the file as JPEG, another feedback from my work is adding more letterspacing for the word FLY and don't overdo the shadow that I've created, another feedback is from Mr. Vinod itself is that I don't need to rotate every single letter from the word HIDDEN and resize the letters bigger, for the word DROWN Mr. Vinod and Mr. Shamsul suggested to add a faint line as it expresses as water, and lastly is redo the letter DIS from DISAPPEAR, instead of creating it as italic just make it normal and also resize the DIS same as the word APPEAR.
01/05/2020
Week THREE:
General Feedback - Due to the public holiday, no feedbacks were given.
Specific Feedback - Due to the public holiday, no feedbacks were given.
08/05/2020
Week FOUR:
General Feedback - Mr. Vinod and Mr. Shamsul suggested everyone to practice on how to use Adobe InDesign.
Specific Feedback - Mr. Vinod said that my name card design was too simple and it was not interesting at all and for my third name card design, Mr. Vinod said that the contact information at the bottom must be aligned with the address information.
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