Typography - Final Compilation & Reflection
June 21st, 2021
April 2nd, 2021 - July 2nd, 2021 (Week 1-Week 14)
Rusydina Fazlin Athirah Binti Fauzi (0344000)
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Multimedia
Final Compilation & Reflection
Instructions
Submissions
Exercise: Type Expression & Text Formatting
30.3.2021- 23.4.2021 (Week 1 - Week 4)
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| Figure 1.1 - Type Expression_Final.jpg |
(Type Expression_Final. pdf)
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| Figure 1.2 - Type expression 'punch'_final.gif |
Task 2: Typographic Exploration & Communication (Text Formatting and Expression)
04.5.2021- 24.5.2021 (Week 6 - Week 8)
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| Figure 1.3 - Task 2_sketch.jpg |
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| Figure 1.4 - Task 2_Final.jpg |
(Task 2_final. pdf)
Task 3(A): Type Design & Communication (Font Design)
24.5.2021- 11.6.2021 (Week 9 - Week 11)
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Figure 1.5 - Font Design_Final.jpg
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(Font Design_Final.pdf)
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| Figure 1.6 - Font design poster_final.jpg |
(Font design poster_final.pdf)
Task 3 (B): Type Design & Communication (Typographical Stickers)
13.6.2021- 02.7.2021 (Week 12 - Week 14)
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| Figure 1.7 - Sticker design pride_final(digitised sketch).jpg |
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Figure 1.8 - Sticker design pride_finale(b&w).jpg
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| Figure 1.9 - Sticker design pride_final(color).jpg |
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| Figure 2.1 - Sticker Text display.jpg |
[Sticker design pride_final (3 of 3)]
Reflection
Experience
The 14 weeks in which we learned about typography was a great experience. It was nice to know a new subject I never studied before, but I didn't know that it was a lot to deal with. I'm not going to deny that during typography class there were lots of breakdowns, doubts, stressful days, and a wave of despair. But that isn't a complaint, this is a way of reflecting on— at times how much I feel like if there was something wrong with me for not being able to pick up on my other classmates' works (who did amazing jobs at their designs), at times it made me feel like I’m not doing good enough because of the number of times I’d feel neglected from my works if I didn’t get feedback from Mr. Vinod nor Mr. Shamsul.
Though setting all the doubts behind me, I did my best to understand and realize that, maybe the reason there were harsh feedbacks or negligence to my designs is to toughen the thought instead of being let down by my lecturers and myself (Thinking I’m an awful designer). I perceived it as a means of an unsentimental mentor teaching their pupils that hard work doesn't come easy, but if you make them notice your efforts and changes in your works, empathetically they will still care and express pride in their students; it was just a 'hard to get' strategy, at least that's what it felt like.
Which, in my opinion, was a huge amount of fun because that mindset helped me toughen up when people criticized me, and I had to see it as an inspiration. Mr. Vinod and Mr. Shamsul taught me a lot about typography, and as difficult as the class can be, it was a way for me to learn, and it was up to me to either take it like a champ or tear myself down even more, and I chose to take it like a fighter!
Observation
Typography was heavy on the observations, everything had to be precise, accurate, and in a way perfect. That is how appearance to magnificent detail is achieved and it definitely evoked something inside me that I didn’t realize that I started doing unintentionally, it was odd at first but I started observing fonts or design glyphs that I see almost anywhere, whether it’d be my phone or the computer or even on a cereal box. Knowing I had the knowledge of typography and am learning about it, completely sets a critical thinking way of how that font was created. Many questions of ‘why?’, ‘how?’, ‘where?’ did they get such ideas in designing a font like that. It intrigued me for most cases and I found it very appealing.
Findings
14 weeks passed and what I was able to find through learning typography was that it requires masses of amounts of patience, interest, effort, and just determination to continue to understand the way the letters on any kind of font works. What I found mind-blowing was also how many fonts have always had their expressive feel, when looking at a particular font and adding it into a project, it just somehow makes sense and I think it was very cool of me to think that and find that quite appealing. But the real question is, will I ever feel like I’d want to get better at typography? Or even still learn it just because of a course? My answer is yes. I think to have typography as a piece of knowledge in mind (well even being a design student, taking up typography could improve a certain design of ours) but the way I see it is, maybe having it as a skill and being really good at designing fonts or differentiating the anatomies of each letter can be seen as two different things. Reading about typography can allow us to do many beautiful things to our creations if words were to be involved with them, though the designing the fonts part maybe will take quite a long time to get it down.
Before signing off our last typography class, Mr. Vinod mentioned, in a way that I interpreted, that in order to really feel yourself in this course is to find ways of our own to be interested in it. That’s when an uphold of holy good designs and creations in typography might just work out.
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