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Typography - Final Compliation

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22/4/2024 - 21/7/2024 (WEEK 1- WEEK 14) LEBON STEPHANIE AMELIE JUDITH  0362853 Typography/ Bachelor of Design ( Honors) in Creative Media/ Taylors University Final Compilation. INSTRUCTIONS. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Task 1: Exercise 1 and 2. Task 2: Type Formatting. Task 3: Type Design and Communication. Overall Reflection TASK 1 Exercise 1: Type Expression. Fig 1.1 Final Type expressions. Final animated expression: Fig 1.2 'Swing' animation. Exercise 2: Text Formatting. Final layout : Fig 3.2 JPEG with gridlines Fig 3.3 JPEG without gridlines Final layout for Exercise 2 (PDF): Details for Exercise 2: HEAD LINE Font/s: Bembo Std Type Size/s: 72 pt Leading: 36 pt Paragraph spacing: 0 BODY Font/s: Bembo Std Type Size/s: 9 pt Leading: 11 pt Paragraph spacing: 11 pt Characters per-line: 57 Alignment: left justified Margins: 123 mm top, 26 mm left + right + bottom Columns: 2 Gutter: 10 mm TASK 2 Final Editorial Spread: Fig 3.1 Final Editorial Spread Fig 3.2 Final Editorial Spread (Grid) ...

Typography Task 3/ Type Design and Communication

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17/6/2024 - 15/7/2024 (WEEK 9- WEEK 13) LEBON STEPHANIE AMELIE JUDITH  0362853 Typography/ Bachelor of Design ( Honors) in Creative Media/ Taylors University Task 3/ Type Design and Communication INSTRUCTIONS. Table of Contents: Sketches. Digitalization. Final Poster. Reflection Feedback. Further Reading. Sketches. 3 Initial Sketches. In Procreate I created 3 Sketches but I ended selecting ' Fig 1.1 Sketch 1' Fig 1.1 Sketch 1. Fig 1.2 Sketch 2. Fig 1.3 Sketch 3. Final(Chosen) Sketch. I added the rest of the letters for ' Fig 1.1 Sketch 1' in the end  deciding to go with capital letters as seen in ' Fig 2.1 ' and ' Fig 2.2'. Fig 2.1 . Fig 2.2. Digitalization. Digitalizing Chosen Sketch.  I added the sketches to Adobe Illustrator and digitalized it. Fig 3.1 Digitalizing. Formatting. I used the method Mr. Vinod and Mr. Max showed us to find all the heights so we can start exporting to Font Lab. Fig 3.2 Finding the Heights. Exporting to Font Labs. I copy pas...

Typography Task 2/ Type Formatting.

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27/5/2024 - 10/6/2024 (WEEK 6- WEEK 8) LEBON STEPHANIE AMELIE JUDITH  0362853 Typography/ Bachelor of Design ( Honors) in Creative Media/ Taylors University Task 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS: Instructions. Task 2 Feedback. Reflection. Further reading. INSTRUCTIONS TASK 2 Typographic Exploration & Communications. Research: For research I used some symbol image I  found online to add into my headline and shapes of the text boxes. Fig 1.1 Vision symbol.   Fig 1.2 Unity symbol.  Fig 1.3 Globe symbol.     In week 6 I started 3 layout sketches. Fig 1.4  Layout Sketches. For the first layout emphasis was on the word 'unite' using the symbol (fig 1.2) as the background for 'u' and 'n'. For the second layout emphasis was on the word 'visualize' using the symbol (fig 1.1) around 'visualize'. For the third layout emphasis was on the words 'a better world' using the symbol (fig 1.3)  around the words 'a better world'. Digitalization:  In week 7 I ...

Typography Task 1/ Exercise 1 and 2.

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22/4/2024 - 20/5/2024 (WEEK 1- WEEK 5) LEBON STEPHANIE AMELIE JUDITH  0362853 Typography/ Bachelor of Design ( Honors) in Creative Media/ Taylors University Task 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS: Lectures. Instructions. Exercise 1. Exercise 2. Feedback. Reflection. Further reading. LECTURES Week 1 : In week 1 I learned how to make a blogger website, How to create the layout of the blogger and how to add different types of attachments to the blogger using the given You-tube tutorials. Week 2 : I watched the lecture video "Typo_1_Devolopment" and started making a mind map on the evolution of typography. Fig 1.1 Mind-Map for  "Typo_1_Devolopment" video. In summary the first part of the lecture gives you a history of early letterforms, how they were initially created, the Phoenician alphabet and how it evolved to Arabic and Modern Latin, hand scripts from the 3rd to 10th century for example Charlemagne that introduced uppercase, lowercase, capitalization and punctuation. In the se...