TYPOGRAPHY - FINAL ASSIGNMENT

29/05/18 - 22/06/18 (Week 10 - Week 14)

Isaac Lee (0330747)

Typography
Final Assignment

INSTRUCTIONS






ASSIGNMENT

29/05/18 (Week 10)

This week, we were given a task to write a short essay about the things we love and hate, approximately 150 words. We were required to write it in InDesign.

1.1 The things I hate

1.2 The things I love

Week 12 (12/06/2018)

During the Raya break, Mr. Vinod told us to sketch 3 titles for our project. The title that I opt for was 'Soft Spot & Pet Peeve'.

2.1 Title sketches

After that, he told us to sketch layouts for our final project.

2.2 Layout sketches

After that, from the sketches, we were required to recreate them in InDesign. The size for this project was A3 size with a body text of 8-12 pt.

3.1 Layout 1

3.2 Layout 2

3.3 Layout 3

3.4 Layout 4

3.5 Layout 5

3.6 Layout 6

3.7 Layout 7

3.8 Layout 8

3.9 Layout 9

3.10 Layout 10

3.11 Layout 11

3.12 Layout 12

3.13 Layout 13

3.14 Layout 14

FEEDBACK

Week 13: Mr. Vinod said told the whole class that 'Further Reading' is important as it carries a huge weightage for grading.



REFLECTIONS

Experience:

Week 10: I feel relieved when I don't have to wake up early to go to class because I get to work at home, which I highly prefer.

Week 12: it's eLearning week and it means that I can stay home to do my work. The work load isn't that much as well, so it was overall okay.

Week 13: Moving on from sketches to translating in InDesign was no big deal. I actually enjoyed it.

Week 14: A stressful week because it's our final submission for everything related to Typography.



Observations:

Week 13: Whatever I sketched will turn out differently on my computer maybe it's because of how perfect/fixed things are in InDesign.



Findings:

Week 13: I faced my greatest enemy again, creating fonts in Illustrator. I had to create my title in Illustrator, and only to find out that I don't really have to use it.



FURTHER READING

Type Matters! by Jim Williams.

The book is just too brief. Typefaces that have serifs and sans are left out of the explanation of type families. The figures are only interpreted as being old-style or lining; the tabular and proportional figures are not directly defined. Instead of using the name of the design, the author refers the typefaces he uses by the name of the fonts. This may cause the readers to believe that Univers is called Zurich, Helvetica is Swiss 921, or Stempel Garamond is original Garamond.

This book covers some topics that are either just odd or plain ridiculous. But then at the same time, Type Matters might be the only book that talks about how slight horizontal scaling of a text can be used to improve justification, a topic that is rarely covered in most books.

CITATION

Williams, J. Type Matters!. London: Merrell Publishers Limited.