At this point I will have the following briefs completed for the hand in:
- Fonte De Vita - Italian Bakery
- 30 Days - Hand Drawn Type
- Dr Me
- Wheatless & More
- The Woodshop
These are five briefs, which is the requirement for the deadline, however I don't think that it's all substantial enough and I would like to have another brief done. From this point to the hand in there is just over five weeks, so that is quite a lot of time to be able to make something, and make it well.
At this point I am still working on four of the five briefs, and think that the one thing that I haven't done yet, which I would like to, is to create a book or publication.
As I have also finalised the direction for my COP, so in general all of my work seems to be leaning towards typography, and I think that at this point it is good to continue that because all the research I do can be put forward for COP as well as Extended Practice briefs.
With this in mind, I have decided that I will create a publication around the principles of typography. This is something that I am interested in and haven't revisited much since he first year. I think that re-familiarising myself with it will be beneficial and will help my COP as well, especially as this is essentially what the first part of my essay is about. I think that doing something practical along with the theoretical side will help me research and give me a bit of motivation to find out as much as I can.
I want this publication to be something that is useful and something I will refer back to, or something that a student would want to look at to learn about type principles. A lot of books about this subject are quite dry, and have a huge amount of text in them. I think something which is completely visual with minimal text will be much more useful to me and other young designers who don't want to spend hours reading about each element.
Areas to look at:
I want this publication to be something that is useful and something I will refer back to, or something that a student would want to look at to learn about type principles. A lot of books about this subject are quite dry, and have a huge amount of text in them. I think something which is completely visual with minimal text will be much more useful to me and other young designers who don't want to spend hours reading about each element.
Areas to look at:
- Classifications - Transitional, Slab Serif etc.
- Styles - Sans serif, Script etc.
- Font Families
- Anatomy
- Technical - kerning, leading, tracking etc
- Weights
- Hierarchy
- Readability & Legibility
- Justification & Word spacing
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