Typography and Hypertextuality - FINAL COMPILATION & REFLECTION

Jaslyn Tjhai (0333039)
Typography and Hypertextuality
Final Compilation

Instructions

Exercises
Project 1: A Story Book
Project 2: Font Design
Final Project: Kinetic Typography

Submission

Exercises

Exercise 1 (Week 1): Calligraphy

Fig. 1.a Vertical Lines

Fig. 1.b Horizontal Lines

Fig. 1.c Cirlces

Exercise 2 (Week 2): Lettering

Fig. 2.a Lettering on selected quote

Exercise 3 (Week 3): Type Expression

Fig. 3.a Type Expression

Exercise 4 (Week 4-5): Six Verbs Type Expression

Fig. 4.a Six words type expression

Fig. 4.b Animated type expression

Project 1 (Week 6-8): A Story Book

Links to Project 1 files

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13Sj1DcJ47vxxIm9SSICx7SOs7kpo9Fm1?usp=sharing

PDF

Animated Book

Hard Copy of the Book

Fig. 5.a First page of the book

Fig. 5.b Page 8-9 of the book

Fig. 5.c Last page of the book

Project 2 (Week 9-11): Font Design

Fig. 6.a Letterforms

Fig. 6.b Generated font

Final Project (Week 12-13): Kinetic Typography

Fig. 7.a Final design of the poster

Fig. 7.b Final animated version of the poster

Reflection

Experience

This module definitely gave me a good experience in developing myself in terms of coming up with an idea, being creative, and thinking of what to design as well as why I'm designing something a certain way. Of course, I also gained some new experiences such as generating my own font, which is the most exciting moment even though my font was just 'okay'. There were also times where I simply have no idea and don't know what kind of design to come up with but as I attend classes and receive feedbacks from both Mr. Vinod and Mr. Shamsul, I can slowly come up with an idea and developing what I already have in mind. Throughout this semester, I also question myself a lot, whether or not I'm taking the right course and whether I'm up being a designer.

Observation

What I observed after this semester is that I'm always stuck in only a few style of design. It's like I'm scared to venture and explore more ideas and express myself better and more confidently. But by the end of the semester, I can definitely see myself trying to be more bold in terms of coming up with ideas and designing.

Findings

I tend to always find myself loving but at the same time hating the fact that I have to work on a project for this module. But I also find myself having a lot of fun where I sometimes found myself looking forward to classes to get feedbacks so I can widen my perspective some more on the ideas that I have in mind for new and more interesting ideas. I also find myself wanting to learn more and improve myself in typography, whether it's in font design, calligraphy, type expression, and most definitely poster design.