Typography – Week 5

Project 2 – Quote me – Concept & Inspiration Conceptual Thinking My concept is to create a modern, simple and new typographical expression of Robert Bringhurst’s words, by breaking off with tradition of the layout. Inspired by the tenets of the Bauhaus, I decided to communicate my visual through the absolute clarity of elements, withContinue reading “Typography – Week 5”

Typography – Week 4

Project 1 – The Architect of the Letterform At this stage, the letterform need to be architect and sculpture. Doing so, I need to analyse the original letterform of the Art Deco, and using basic shapes to rebuild my letterform to give it an architectural visual appearance. Experimenting the letterform help me understand how toContinue reading “Typography – Week 4”

Typography – Week 3

Project 1 – Concept Development During this week, I decided to take the course of my thinking further to explore the meaning that links my charcoal drawing, the Flamenco Dancing and the Mature letterform-Typface concept. I took further research by watching Flamenco Dancing documentary, analysing how dancers voice their movements, and how that revealed inContinue reading “Typography – Week 3”

Typography – Week 2

Project 1: Conceptual Thinking Technically, dictionary is the main source of word definition, by which adjectives may reveal some inspiring ideas, and provide meanings that can be drawn from. What does it mean ‘word definition’? Is it true that dictionaries are the only reference source to definitions? The reason why, I am asking these questionsContinue reading “Typography – Week 2”

Typography – Week 1

Hello Everyone My first post for week 1 activity – Introduction to Typography of  the Typography unit. Activity: You’re quite the type!   The purpose of this activity is to get us thinking about and working with type. It also investigates different approaches to express typographic personality, with understanding the basic typography terminologies, such asContinue reading “Typography – Week 1”