Typography Final Compilation and Reflection
3.5.2022 - 10.5.2022 (Week 1 - Week 14)
Teo Javin 0349352
Typography / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media / Taylor's
University
Final Compilation and Reflection
Instruction
Task 1- Exercises // Type Expression and Text Formatting
29.3.2022 - 26.4.2022 (Week1 - Week5)
Figure1.1 Final outcome of type expression, 20 April 2022
Figure1.2 Final outcome of type expression in PDF, 20 April 2022
Final1.3 Final outcome for text animation, 20 April 2022
Figure1.4 Final outcome for text formatting, 20 April 2022
Figure1.5 Final outcome for text formatting in PDF, 20 April 2022
Font : ITC Garamond Std
Typeface : ITC Garamond Std Book
Font size : 60 pt, 24 pt, 9 pt
Leading: 13pt
Paragraph Spacing: 10pt
Average characters per line : 50 ~ 60
Alignment: Left Justify
Margins : 12.7mm (top, left, right), 12.7mm (bottom)
Columns : 2
Gutter (for columns) : 5mm
Task 2- Typographic Exploration and Communication
3.5.2022 - 10.5.2022 (Week6 - Week7)
Figure2.1 Final outcome for Typographic Exploration, 9 May 2022
Figure2.2 Final outcome for Typographic Exploration in PDF, 9 May 2022
Task3a- Type Design and Communication
17.5.2022 - 31.5.2022 (Week8 - Week10)
Font download link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10btcCsZEKrB93-S6yM64N6QUouzqX4g9/view?usp=sharing
Figure3.1 Type Design sketches, 28 May 2022
Figure3.2 Final outcome for Type Design in outline mode, 28 May 2022
Figure3.3 Final outcome for Type Design, 28 May 2022
Figure3.4 Final outcome for Type Design poster, 28 May 2022
Figure3.4 Final outcome for Type Design poster in PDF, 28 May 2022
Task 3b- Type Design and Communication
7.6.2022 - 14.6.2022 (Week11 - Week12)
Figure4.1 Final outcome for sticker (B&W), 13 June 2022
Figure4.2 Final outcome for sticker (colorized), 13 June 2022
Figure4.3 Final outcome for sticker in PDF, 13 June 2022
Figure4.4 Screen grab of sticker on Telegram, 13 June 2022
Sticker pack download link: https://t.me/addstickers/typojavin
Reflection
Experience
In this subject, I had to think like a perfectionist as the tiniest mistake is visible to the audience. Take Task1's text formatting as an example, I must align every single text box to the gridlines given in InDesign, or else the result would look weird. Furthermore, typography is not really my kind of thing, this might be one of the causes of my constant struggle with this subject. However, after 14 weeks of typography class, I started to appreciate every font made and anything that involves typography, knowing how it was a pain to create them due to my slight lack of interest in it.
Observation
InDesign was a challenge to master as it has too many features to learn within a few weeks. For a newbie for typography like me, I find it time consuming and hard to cope due to my bad time management.
Finding
I've learnt many things throughout this course. I've tried 2 new software within a semester, something that I wouldn't do during my leisure time as I'd rather stay in my comfort zone of certain software. I've also learnt that to do typography, one must have the patience to finish it, such as creating fonts or formatting texts.
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