Advanced Typography - Task 1

31.8.2022 - 21.9.2022 (Week1 - Week 4)
Lee Yan Xu / 0347696 / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

Advanced Typography

Task 1 - Exercise: Typographic Systems & Type & Play

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Lectures

Week 1 - Introducing the module

- Axial

- Radial

- Dilatational

- Random

- Grid

- Modular

- Transitional

- Bilateral

Fig 1, Axial

Fig 2, Radial

Fig 3, Dilatational

Fig 4, Random

Fig 5, Grid

Fig 6, Modular

Fig 7, Transitional

Fig 8, Bilateral

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Instruction

Type and Play

Fig 9, Axial (7/9/2022)

Fig 10, Dilatational (7/9/2022)

Fig 11, Grid (7/9/2022)

Fig 12, Modular (7/9/2022)

Fig 13, Radial (7/9/2022)

Fig 14, Random (7/9/2022)

Fig 15, Transitional (7/9/2022)

Fig 16, Bilateral (7/9/2022)

Fig 17, Final outcome in PDF (7/9/2022)

Type and Play

Fig 18, Tracing (13/9/2022)

Fig 19, Letter "A" (13/9/2022)

Fig 20, Letter "C" (13/9/2022)

Fig 21, Letter "J" (13/9/2022)

Fig 22, Letter "L" (13/9/2022)

Fig 23, Letter "V" (13/9/2022)

Fig 24, All letters in PDF (13/9/2022)

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Feedback

Week 1 - Some of them are fine but Radial and Axial need to have some changes.

Week 2 - N/A

Week 3 - Some letter was not clear.

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Reflection

For the first stage I think is all fine just need to change some of them so that can be better. The play and type are really really fun because I have done a quite similar thing as the last sem so I very like and enjoy it. Moreover, although I have done it before, I still have parts is not good enough so I have improved on them.

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Futher Reading

Fig 25, Typographic Systems by Kimberly Elam

Diagrams are used to explain the eight systems of typography. I read this book to expand my knowledge of the course material and to see more reference pictures. The eight systems were explained along with symmetry placement, nonobjective features, and several other elements.