Month: August 2020

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Typo 1 – Assignment 1b

Assignment 1b is an interesting assignment that I did. Mainly the fact that I realised that how we can play around with cropping an alphabet to make it look illegible but yet at the same time, being able to be recognisable. The fonts that I used here are mainly “Gill Sans MT, Baskerville Old Face, Bauhaus 93, Comic Sans MS and Berlin Sans FB”.

Sticking to the design brief where I have to stick to black and white, i also plays around with negative space to show how I make use of the little inner details to showcase the whole alphabet out.

Just as what our tutor, Desmond, wanted us to do it “quickly without overthinking”, I did the whole 40 square cropping with the flow of my own perspectives. Which I would that there are more rooms for improvement and feedback to improve myself from my first attempt.

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Typo 1 – Assignment 1a

For this assignment, I have decided to post the drawing which shows the original and final version. The intention that I want to show is the lesson learnt.

Obviously as seen here, the original versions are the one that look more out of place and intelligible.  The final version are the one that look to be more “effort” and in placed.

Though I have to admit that I initially wanted to get this over and done with as this assignment is like “tracing” our name out with the reference paper. But I decided to redo it as a challenge for myself to point out the different details and points in the alphabets.

As see in the final version, I emphasized more on the Cap, Y and Baseline. Just like the good old kindergarten days where we practice with alphabet writing. It sort of trigger the old memories that I had. From this assignment, it gives me a sense of understanding towards the different strokes and weight emphasis on each alphabet. Like how serif and sans-serifs are unique from each other here that makes typography beautiful in expressing the feelings and emotions of the authors towards the viewers.