22/4/2024 - 26/7/2024 (Week 1 - 14) SUNG J XIN/ 0370139/ Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media GCD 60104 TYPOGRAPHY Final Compilation & Reflection Instructions Task 1: Exercises Task 2: Typographic Exploration & Communication (Text Formatting & Expression) Task 3: Type Design & Communication Submissions Task 1 Exercise 1: Type Expression Fig. 1.0, Final Type Expressions (14/5/2024) Fig. 1.1, Final Type Expressions PDF (15/5/2024) Fig. 1.2, Final Type Expression GIF (18/5/2024) Exercise 2: Text Formatting Fig. 1.3, Final Text Formatting (20/5/2024) Fig. 1.4, Final Text Formatting with Grids (22/5/2024) Fig. 1.5, Final Text Formatting With and W/o Grids PDF (22/5/2024) HEADLINE Font: Futura Std Type Size: 48 pt Leading: 57.6 pt Paragraph Spacing: 0 BODY Font: Univers LT Std Type Size: 9 pt Leading: 11 pt Paragraph Spacing: 11 pt Characters per line: 55 Alignment: Left Justified Margins: 12.7 mm (Top, Left, Right, Bottom) Columns: 2 Gutter: 10mm Ta...
22/4/2024 - 24/5/2024 (Week 1 - 5) SUNG J XIN/ 0370139/ Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media GCD 60104 TYPOGRAPHY Task 1 - Exercises ___________________________________________________________________________ Lectures Week 1: DEVELOPMENT (Timeline) Writing used to be done by scratching into wet clay with a sharpened stick or a chisel to carve on stones. The letterforms used were just a combination of straight lines and pieces of circles. The Greeks developed a new writing style called 'boustrophedon' so that the text can be read alternately from right to left and left to right. Fig. 1.0, Boustrophedon The Etruscan and Roman carvers working in marble painted the letterforms before inscribing them. Some qualities of their strokes would be carried over into the carved letterforms. Square capitals have serifs that is added to the finish of the main strokes and they can be found in Roman monuments. Rustic capitals are compressed versions of square ...
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