Project 1 Typography
Typography-Project 1
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08/05/2018 - 15/05/2018 (Week 7 to Week 8)
Afsah Faheem (0334242)
Typography
Project 1: Booklet
Lecture Notes
Lecture 7 The Babadook
08/05/2018
This week Mr.Vinod gave us our first project which is to design a storybook for the folktale Babadook. He showed us examples and then chose us to choose a font from the 10 fonts he had given us to use and express the story. He explained that we only had to express a few words and not every sentence. The task given is to express certain words to create an ominous feeling.
Lecture 8 Project 2 Debrief
15/05/2018
We were finished with most of our work and only the final adjustments had to be made to our babadook booklets. Mr.Vinod explained the second project to us briefly before letting us go for the day.
INSTRUCTIONS
PROJECT 1
Week 7
Draft for Babadook
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08/05/2018 - 15/05/2018 (Week 7 to Week 8)
Afsah Faheem (0334242)
Typography
Project 1: Booklet
Lecture Notes
Lecture 7 The Babadook
08/05/2018
This week Mr.Vinod gave us our first project which is to design a storybook for the folktale Babadook. He showed us examples and then chose us to choose a font from the 10 fonts he had given us to use and express the story. He explained that we only had to express a few words and not every sentence. The task given is to express certain words to create an ominous feeling.
Lecture 8 Project 2 Debrief
15/05/2018
We were finished with most of our work and only the final adjustments had to be made to our babadook booklets. Mr.Vinod explained the second project to us briefly before letting us go for the day.
INSTRUCTIONS
PROJECT 1
Week 7
Draft for Babadook
7.1 Babadook Draft Thumbnail
Week 8
Final Babadook
Cover page final
Page 2-3 final
Pages 4-5 final
Pages 6-7 final
Pages 8-9 final
Pages 10-11 final
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Page 12 final
Thumbnails for Mr Babadook
Link for final design
Cover Page final
pages 7-8 final
Last page final
FEEDBACK
Week 7
We only got specific feedback this class which was Mr.Vinod telling is to keep our alignment between the texts equal. I received no specific feedback this week.
Week 8
Mr.Vinod told me that I was expressing every sentence instead of emphasising certain words. He also told me to work on my alignment, spacing, contrast and consistency. He told me to keep the pattern and flow of my text consistent.
REFLECTION
Experience: The first part where I had to express each sentence was easy but when I had to start focusing on words, it got hard. It got a little frustrating throughout the way because the alignment was tricky. However, throughout the end, I gained better understanding on how text needs to be placed to express a story line.
Observation: Since this was our first project and we got a break from type expressions, there was a lot more motivation and energy. I had a lot of energy and ideas for this project which were restricted due to instructions. I've released, that Mr.Vinod is pointing us in a direction where minimalism is what we're suppose to work with.
Findings: Layout and placement is tricky business, one sentence or word's placement ca ruin the overall appearance of a page. There needs to be consistency and a flow from the first page to the last page. I also found, that each type fadein type families work together in a harmony and compliment each other.
FURTHER READING
Thinking with Type:
The book explains the history and development of type classification and type families. It also explains the basic anatomy of type families.
The book explains that the basic system for classifying typefaces was divided in the nineteenth century, when printers wanted to identify their own craft analogues. The humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of hand. The transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque and Enlightenment periods in art and literature.
According to the book, typefaces were developed in the sixteenth century when printers began organising roman and italic typefaces into matched families. The concept was then formalised in the early 20th century. The book explains the anatomy of the type family and lists down the most common typefaces in a type family. The examples are;-
1) Roman: the core or spine of the family.
2) Italic: based on cursive writing.
3) Small caps: a height that is similar to the lowercase x-height.
4) Bold and Semi-Bold: typefaces used for emphasis within hierarchy.
5) Bold and Semi-bold italic.
Typographic Design Form and Communication:
The book discusses type family and what different typefaces in each type family represent. The book also explains how typefaces can be added into type families.
A type family consists of a group of related typefaces, confined by a set of similar design characteristics. Each face in the family is an individual one that has been created by changing visual aspects of the parent font. Early type families consisted of three fonts: the regular roman face, a bolder version and an italic.The bold font expands typographic possibilities by brining impact to titles, headings and splay settings. Italics are primarily used for emphasis as a variation of roman.
The book explains that there are two specific ways to adding more typefaces into a type family, these are weight and proportion. By changing the stroke width relative to the height of the letters, a whole series of alphabets, ranging from extremely light to very bold can be produced. By changing proportions of a type style by making letterforms wider or narrower, more typefaces can be added to a type family.
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