This is a very significant and fun process of drawing the letterform, and this was also my first time using hand draw method to draw out the letters with skeletons, then dress it up. I didn’t expect that I would spend an hour to finish the whole process and I could finish it finally. It …
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Concrete poem
In my concrete poem, I have put the elements and words that can be found in Macleans park in. I cut out the tree branches from a urban building magazine paper and I cut out the urban buildings from a forest magazine paper. To symbolise everything has changed since I decided to come to New …
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Mind map- Macleans Park
This mind map is to help me to go deeper with my reasons and understanding of my chosen place- Macleans park. I have written down the atmosphere&weather, relationship between me and Macleans park, Experience and impression, memories and what this place has remind me of, feelings, colour and textures etc…
Photographic investigation – Macleans Park
I went here with two of my friends during the dust, and we unexpectedly have taken some nice and beautiful photos which has captures the fabulous light source from the sun, It was so chill and peaceful that the sky looked really warm, the colour of the sky could really influence people’s mood.
Typographic skeleton and redrawing the letters
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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Selecting my 2 favourite typefaces and doing comparison for them
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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First attempt with learning the anatomy of the typefaces
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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