Typography Evaluation Schedule (30 June 2010 -Wed)

Dear all,

Must commend you for finishing the class faithfully this semester. I look forward to marking your work and meeting you all individually one last time next week. Please do find the details as below:

Date: 30 June 2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 3.00pm to 4.25pm
Venue: PC Lab 1 (apologies for the mistake last time)

Schedule:
3.00pm - Padmini
3.05pm - Darren
3.10pm - Leong Shu Ting
3.15pm - Amos Tee
3.20pm - Yong Chee Yoong
3.25pm - Lai Jen Ee
3.30pm - Chia Pei Ying
3.35pm - Tan Shi Jing
3.40pm - Kaelvin
3.45pm - Martin
3.50pm - Louis
3.55pm - Adrian Kua
4.00pm - Timothy
4.05pm - Siti
4.10pm - Lim Kah Mun
4.15pm - Deborah
4.20pm - Amanda
4.25pm - Kym


Have a great week there and shall see you all then.



Thanks.

Assignment 2: Submission & Presentation

Submission Date:

23 June 2010 (Next Wed)

Time:

3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

(Presentation will begin at 3:15 pm, hence please be punctual)

Venue:

PC Lab 2

Requirements:

(1) 8 spread Typography Booklet (Open Spread Binding + Printed)

(2) CD (Containing PDF document of Booklet)

- CD Naming System: Name_TypoAssignment2

- Sharing of CD is allowed but please label accurately

Format:

Submit Item (1) & (2) above in an A4 envelope with your name in front.

Submit in class.

Presentation:

What to present?

(1) What typeface did you choose for your type booklet and why?

- Share short details about your typeface i.e: How many typestyles? Best used for what? Who designed it? etc

(2) What is the main concept to your design?

- Why did you choose a certain style?

- How was it applied to your design and why?

(3) Share one thing that you learnt from this assignment

Presentation is 5-8 minutes per person.

Dress-code:

Smart Casual

Marks will be given to your presentation, although it is perhaps a small portion but do hope that you'd still work your best on it not for the marks alone but because it will be a good time for you to practice what it means to share your work and talk about it in a more analytical way.

Enjoy the presentation as it will be a time to just share ideas and experience with your friends and classmates, no need to stress k?!

Thanks

Assignment 2: Title Page

Dear students,

Thanks for your kind patience thus far, do want to upload the 'Title Page' section writings for you to use in your Typography Booklet before anything else.

Meanwhile, do look forward to your emails on your progress if there is any thing that you might want me to crit on. This is especially important for those absent from class last week.

Title Page Details:

Title of your book
A Typography Booklet

Copyright (c) 2010 by __________

All rights reserved, no part of this book

may be reproduced in any form without

writen permission of the copyright owner.

First published in Malaysia by

___________, 2010

Address

Website

Designed by:

Edited by:

For the subject of: Typography

Contents Credit: Wikipedia

Submission in Class

Dear students,

Please do bring all your final project envelopes to class for submission. I will inform management.



Thanks.

Typography Final Project Submission

Dear students,

Especially for those of you who were absent in class this week, here are the details of your Final Project submission due next week (26 May 2010).

1. Final A3 Print Out (Vertical) - 2 Categories
(a) A3 Final computer generated A-Z letterforms print out on A3 paper (vertical format)
- This is a B/W print for majority of students.
- If your letterforms are created in colour, then this A-Z print will be in colour.

(b) A3 Final computer generated poster (vertical format)
- Use your letterforms to form a quote/phrase.
- You are allowed to use only shapes, lines, vector graphics, patterns and perhaps photoshop brushes to enhance your poster.
- No images are allowed
- Poster is in Colour

(See sample)














2. A4 Binded Research & Documentation Folder
- Research information on object (ie: history, background, etc etc)
- Images of the object
- Weekly progress sketches & development (at least 5)
- Design references

3. CD
- Label a folder with your NAME
- In the folder, each student should have:
(a) 2 Illustrator/Photoshop File (1 A-Z and 1 Poster design)
(b) 2 Exported JPEG image (1 A-Z and 1 Poster design)

* You are allowed to share CD's however, please make sure that you label the CD with the shared persons name.

4. > A3 Envelope
- Section 1 - 3 are placed inside a bigger than A3 Envelope labeled with:
(a) Name
(b) Class
(c) Subject
(d) Final Project

5. Bring all envelopes to class and submit it there. I will inform management.
- Late submissions will have marks being minus.


If you are not clear about anything or have not shown me any pre-final progress, please do email me.

(1) Adrian
(2) Louis
(3) Panny
(4) Chee Yoong
(5) Kah Mun

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Assignment 1: Interesting Samples 6

These are perhaps more formal approaches but relevant for the context of the phrases/quotes used. Do hope this provides you with a wide range of possibilities in your Assignment.

Assignment 1: Interesting Samples 5

Assignment 1: Interesting Samples 4

Assignment 1: Interesting Samples 3

Observe how these compositions are purely made from type. See how they play with the character anatomy of the various types chosen. Some extended the Stem of the typeface, some played with the Apex and Vertex. See also how they play with repetition in a beautiful way. Overlapping in just the accurate proportions. Observe too on how colours are applied. Tones explored.

You are encouraged to experiment with things like this.

Assignment 1: Interesting Samples 2

Assignment 1: Interesting Samples

Here are some interesting samples on how different artists/designers played with type, space and overall compositions. I do hope they can provide you guys with some inspiration in your brainstorming and ideas. Most of your compositions thus far can still be improved, in terms of how you experiment with the typeface itself, foreground and background. Observe how they use the type itself to create different forms of emotions, how they adjust kernings, spacing, cropping, exaggeration of type, overlapping, contrast, balance, unity to help in their compositions.

Assignment 1: Progress/ Workshop Materials

Dear students,

With regards to your Assignment 1 on the movie one liner, do hope you guys are already trying it out. As mentioned in class, this is just a short reminder that I'd be hoping to see at least 2-3 tryouts for each composition (B/W and Colour).

Save it in your Pen Drive in JPEG format as I believe Lecture Room 1 does not have Adobe Illustrator.


Thanks and see you all.

p/s: Also do remember to bring these materials to class tomorrow for your workshop.

(1) A3 Art block / A3 Layout Pad
(2) Any mark making materials (reeds, pencil, markers, colour pens, brushes, tissue, sponges, scalpels, stones, leafs, wood branches)
(3) Black poster colour + Palette + Rags/Cloths

Assignment 1 - Postponed

Dear students,

My apologies but it looks like most of you are still not aware of Assignment 1. To be fair, I shall cancel the Assignment for now and just start it officially next week. So yes, please proceed to focus on your Final Project development sketches and we shall begin Assignment 1 only next week.

My mistake.


All the best!

Assignment 1: Interesting Study

Just for some starters to Assignment 1, here are some pointers for you.

1. Make a word grow or shrink.
2. Apply contrasts
3. Apply Figure and Ground reversals
4. Experiment with opposite meanings if it helps convey your message ie: Expressing the word BIG in really small type.
5. Play with really extremely large type size.
6. Play with really small type size.
7. Break horizontal text linings.
8. Break words apart.
9. Apply ligatures (character consisting of two or more letters combined into one)
10. Use type as texture/bg

On the other hand, do check out the work of Reid Miles too. He designed for many Jazz labels and was very inventive in his use of type.

Lastly, keep in mind once again that for this assignment, no image is allowed yea.


Have a blast!

Assignment 1: Crit Requirements Next Week (28/4)

With regards to Assignment 1, my sincere thanks goes to Kaelvin and gang for helping me pass the word and brief to the class. I apologize for leaving that out. Meanwhile, I do hope that most of you understand the requirements to the project.

It is basically a 2 week project and is very similar to the exercise 1 you did in class on Expressive Type, except perhaps more elaborate and expressive. I will be taking some time off this week to analyze your submissions in hopes to provide some feedback to you all next week. Most were pretty interesting but I did notice a few students using image to help in the expression (which by the way is not allowed in your Assignment 1) . Nonetheless, having a little more time with Assignment 1 as compared to the exercise in class, I believe more interesting stuff will come out of you all yea ;) Do have fun with it too.

Anyways, please do write me if you've got any uncertainties about the project.

As for next week, I know I told Kaelvin that you can just do some tryouts on the computer and show me your work-in-progress. But having weighed the intensity of the Assignment, I am hereby making it compulsory that you must show me at least:

2 tryouts for each composition (ie: 2 b/w and 2 colour) for next week's class alongside your typeface design sketches.

Knowing that this Assignment is worth 20% of your subject, I think its better to do a progress for it too. So yes, do well there and experiment as much as you can.



Take care

DCM05/DGD03 Typography Class Group

Dear Students,

I've set up a temporary blog for the class so that I can paste up any important announcements or information for all of you here. I realized that this might perhaps be a better way to communicate with the 18 of you guys without missing any of you out. Please do check this site at least once a week and preferably before the week ends or before the next class.

All critiques and feedback session on work will still be based in class. Meanwhile, do direct all queries to my hotmail account given previously in class.

Thank you and see you all again soon!