Fatin Nadia Binti Ishak (300 422 242)
Typography
Lecture:Mr. Vinod starts the day by giving us a general feedback, don’t do things at the very last minute, and don’t ever personal message him on Facebook all the time unless it is necessary, we need to ask our classmate regarding the matter by posting it on the ‘typography group’ in Facebook before referring it to him, according to him we need to take pictures clearly before update it on the e-portfolio. There are about four important things that he taught us during the day, at first he explained again, what the word portfolio is and how it should be done, which is in a PDF form. Presentation of our past work, which is the end result of task two and then he assign us the third task which is about type expression. Again, during the day he explained in more detail about types of font, for instance Serif is actually comprised of three types; which are San serif, display and script and there are few other types of font. Lastly, he explained to us what we need to do for our next task which is a type expression.
Instructions
Type
expression (20%) Task 1: Identify 4 words that describe you.
You will then express typographically the meaning of these words
without the aid of a visual. You are only allowed to manipulate the
type to express the inherent meaning of the chosen words.
Draw two 7cm
squares on an A4 graph paper using a pencil. Ensure the boxes are
centered vertically and horizontally in the A4 paper. Do the same for
two other sheets of paper to obtain 4 squares in total.
Draw and
express you respective words. Upon approval digitize your artworks
using Adobe Illustrator and print them out. Update your eportfolio
throughout the task and ensure every aspect of the process is
documented methodically.
Marking
criteria: Your work will be judged on whether you have been able
to capture the meaning or action of the chosen words through your
designs. The designed words in the type expression task must
showcase sensitivity in balance, proportion and
composition. It must reflect the inherent meanings of the words. You
will be judged on whether you have demonstrated critical thinking
and exploration. This evidence must be visible in your postings
in the eportfolio and your in-class process work.
Research :
I did few
research before start the process, by referring to youtube, which was
very unique and complicated.
Refer to the
link below;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LFjMtfZ42fY
Then i saw few
examples based of type expression;
Process:
I did some
research regarding the task, especially when i saw Mr. Vinod post on
Facebook few examples of type expression, according to him it need to
be based of our own personality, obviously I know what type of person
I am, but then I still asked my family members about my own
personality based if their perception, and the result was the same as
my answer for the question. People who is close to me will say that I
am a very stubborn person, it takes time for me to listen to others
and I like to do things as what i want it to be, they say that I am
very talkative, tidy, conservative, brave, independent and few
others. However, people who is not close to me will think that I am a
shy, silent, soft and not friendly too.
Sketch;
Some of my idea
was mostly from the internet, i try to google how does type of
expression look like, there are a lot actually and most of it are not
a common or standard arrangement of font as what i familiar with.
Most of the
font will represent or express the meaning of the word or personality
itself, for instance, the word shout means loud or something that
really stands out, so the example below shows how does the font or
arrangement of the letters look like, it really stands out !
Then, i finally
come out with an idea of creating something that represent of express
the word itself, refer to the picture below;
Sketch:
(1)
(2) From graph
paper ;
(3) Using the
calligraphy pen ;
I may make some
changes later, but so far this is how it will look like for the
moment, I wanted to use all capitals for the word organized, because
it look more neat and organized in a such way, hardworking word is
the mixture of capital and small letters, for aggressive I am using
small letters for all but I just make the middle letters smaller
compare to few first and last letter, and lastly for stubborn word, I
choose to use a basic style of letter, capital letter for 's' and
small letters for the rest.
Feedback:
Mr. Vinod:
"Nadia,
your composition or arrangement of the words do not really enhance or
bring out the meaning of the words you have chosen. If you view the
examples I have given you can see it quite clearly enhances the
meaning of the words through arrangement. Please rework them after
analysing the examples I provided".
Reflection:
Experience;
Personally, I
believed that it must be hard for an individual to create such a type
expression, because it must be hard to create words that really stand
out the meaning. It was actually such a beautiful art.
Observation;
Based on my
observation, I need a lot more practice and time in order to come out
with something that's unique and simple, a lot more research and
practice may help me later in the next step of the task, the result
shouldn't be too weird and decorative, as what I always did.
Finding;
I found that,
using a non-slanted calligraphy pen is not easy and my final result
should be a lot more better than what i did so far, hopefully I can
figure out something that a lot more better later.
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