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Advanced Typography - Project 1

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Week 6 - Week 9 Teoh Hoong Boon (Julius) | 0338478 Advanced Typography Project 1: The Troublemakers Manifesto: A Design Colloquium Lecture Notes Week 7 This week another group lead the lecture with another presentation. This time about designing type. The lesson consisted on the anatomy of text, the treatment of text, as well as the classification of font type. Below is the presented slides: Instructions Week 6 This week we were briefed on Project 1 of the module. Titled "The Troublemakers Manifesto: A Design Colloquium", we were to design collaterals for the seminar/design conference. Our first task is to design a key artwork that will be utilised through all the collaterals. Initially we were told that images both photograph and illustrative could be used, so long as we adhere to the theme. For my initial idea, I wanted to go with an illustrative style featuring a take on graffiti. It all begins with a photo that I had of a friend from so...

Design Research Methodology - Proposal

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Week 1 - Week 4 Teoh Hoong Boon (Julius) | 0338478 Design Research Methodology Proposal Lectures Lecture 1: Introduction / Research Problem 03 April 2019 | Week 1 The first class begins with a rundown of the overall subject module booklet, enlightening us on what we can expect in the duration of the semester. We were also given a basic understanding on research, the process of questioning, discovery and investigation and the arrival at potential new conclusions. Lecture 2: Problem statement, Research question, Research objective 10 April 2019 | Week 2 Week 2 has us further learning the structures of a good research, more specifically the structure of a proposal, of which we will be applying to our own proposal for our research assignment. Instructions 03 April 2019 | Week 1 Ms Jinchi gave us a rundown on the module as well as gave us a briefing as to what we would be doing. Namely, preparing the proposal for our research. We were to decide ...

Advanced Typography - Exercises

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Week 1 - Week 5 Teoh Hoong Boon (Julius) | 0338478 Advanced Typography Exercises Lectures Lecture 1: MIB Brief/Typographic System 02 April 2019 | Week 1 The first day of class begins with Mr Vinod going over the module outline to give us a gist of what we can expect to learn in the class. We were also briefed on the fact that we as the class would be leading the lecture for the next week. Our topic was to be about the eight typographic systems. Split into eight groups, we each had to come up with slides containing information our respective typographic system and present it to class as sort of a small presentation session. The eight systems were axial, radial, dilatational, random, grid, modular, transitional and bilateral. Through the sharing one thing became apparent to me, some of these system share overlapping characteristics and knowing which was beneficial for each situation would be important. This is also because some systems possess a very decorative st...