28.3.2022 - 26.4.2022 (Week 1 - Week 5) Teo Javin 0349352 Typography Lectures Week 1 Lecture 1: This week is our first physical class led by Mr. Vinod. Not much teaching and more briefing about our assignments and exercises. Mr. Vinod also held an ice-breaking session where students toss a paper ball around and whoever it lands onto has to introduce himself/herself. Figure 1.1 Example of the ice-breaking game Week 1 Lecture Early letterform development: Phoenician to Roman People used to scratch letters or fonts they wanted into wet clay with a sharpened stick or carve into a rock with a chisel for the past 2000 years. Uppercase letters consist of a simple combination of straight lines and pieces of circles, as the materials and tools of early writing required. Figure 2.1 Phoenician fonts and their reading direction Hand script from 3rd - ...
