In lesson 2, I have learnt that it is very important to learn about the skeletons before dressing the letters in designing any of the typefaces. I thought designing typefaces was easy and we could just draw it out without experiencing these process. But drawing skeletons and dressing the letters makes the whole set of …
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For my 2 selected typefaces, I have chosen Bodoni and Avenir to work on. As they both have obvious difference of their serifs, forms, thickness of strokes. Bodoni: More extravagant and variety. It has less rounded stress compared to Avenir. Moreover, it has more serifs for its arms, legs, foots etc. Avenir: Same thickness of …
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On week one, we first tried to investigate the anatomy of different fonts with or without serifs, in these 2 kinds of fonts, we tried to make as many comparisons as we can and picked 3 favorite ones to present in class, they are letters O, J, and C. The most obvious contrast we could …
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Throughout the whole project, I have had a very precious time and experience interviewing a person who works for the community and I am not familiar with, lessons learning to take good images, use suitable grids for my publication, types of layouts, bindings, and having deeper understanding of using Indesign to design my entire publication. …
Phewww I have finally done my public intervention, the most embarrassing experience I have ever had… I have tried to record the public intervention inside Xtreme entertainment but the manager ended up just told me off by saying no photographs even though I have asked for the access from John. Therefore I moved to record …
I cannot explain how happy and touching I am when I see my babe (publication covers) are done, I kept recording and taking pictures when the laser printer was printing it out. This time I have also have the tape on to avoid burning the cover, however, the process of peeling the tapes off was …
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I used a series of photos to make a poster for my public intervention and I did not put a big front image of John on it because I want to know how many people can recognise John with just looking at his side face, bowling lanes and the bowling balls, as these are the …
My second laser cut experience- It is always fun and satisfying looking at the laser printer to print my final design out. Ken has suggested me to put the tape on the cardboard to avoid burning it.
Paper used: A4, 120gsm coated papers Printing & Mockups: Failed badly as the printing set up was not correct, therefore the order of the pages are not right, papers wasted and money wasted. Money spent: over $30 nzd 😢 Overall outcome: need to be super aware of the printing set up and going to use 170gsm …
This is my publication cover and back design, for the white areas I am going to laser cut them away and for the text “E-XTREME” and the patterns, I am going to just engrave them to make some textures on the cover.
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