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27/9/2018 - 27/11/2018 (Week 1- Week 14) Ng Shu Zhi 0327158 Advanced Typography - Final Compilation INSTRUCTIONS EXERCISES PROJECT 1 & 2 FINAL PROJECT WORK EXERCISES fig 2.1 1-8 of my Typographic systems fig 2.2 9-16 of my Typographic systems fig 2.3 Dissection of my work to find the letters. fig 2.4 Final outcome of the dissection and refinement. fig 2.5 Final outcome of exercise 3 to put typography into a picture to enhance it. PROJECT 1 & 2 fig 2.6 My key artwork for the Typographic Typosexual Exhibtion fig 2.7 My poster for the Typographic Typosexual Exhibition fig 2.8 My badges as collateral for the Exhibition FINAL PROJECT fig 2.10 Fruit font for Skittles fig 2.11 The poster for the new Skittles font fig 2.12 Animation for the poster REFLECTION Experience To sum up the 14 weeks, it was tougher than last semester but since we've already experienced and learned about design ...

16/10/2018 - 13/11/2018  (Week 7 - Week 11 ) Ng Shu Zhi (0327158) Design Research Methodology - Project 3 - Research Implementation LECTURES Week 6: We had a lecture regarding the different methods to collect primary data like observations, surveys, questionnaires and interviews. Week 7: We had a lecture regarding the second part to Data Collection which are qualitative and quantitative methods to data collection. INSTRUCTIONS WORK Research method: Questionnaire  I felt that making a questionnaire, I would like to get people's preferences and opinions with no biased leads so participants can give their own honest opinions. Plan: Compare old Lara Croft designs and have gamers rate them. Have focus groups of gamers and ask for their opinions on the older designs and new ones, and have them rate each design. My Focus groups are: People who have played Tomb Raider to get their opinion on her new design on a more personal level since they’ve p...

25/9/2018 - 9/10/2018  (Week 5 - Week 7 ) Ng Shu Zhi (0327158) Design Research Methodology - Project 2 - Research LECTURES Week 5: We had a lecture regarding the formation of a critical review and also Research 101 in the library. INSTRUCTIONS WORK Critical Review on the use of motion capture for the animation The critical reviews regarding Lara Croft  Critical Review on Hypersexuality Critical Review on Character Design

29/10/2018 - 19/11/2018  (Week 10 - Week 13 ) Ng Shu Zhi (0327158) Advanced Typography - Final Project -   Design, Exploration and Application   INSTRUCTIONS WORK As for my final project I would focus on a life long dream I've had since I was a child. Changing the skittles font. As a child I never likes the font for these few reasons: 1. It's blocky shape doesn't represent skittles which are round and smooth. 2. It's colour doesn't represent skittles or the exciting flavours in skittles. 3. It's kerning is too tight when skittles are individual bite sized candy. Ways to solve this: 1. Make the font more expressive to the flavours 2. Fix the Kerning to match Skittle's nature of being bite sized candy. So after discussing with the teachers, they referred to me a Malaysian artist Yusof Gajah's work and recommended I use the fruit flavours in the original skittles to narrow down my options of fruits to use. fig 2.1 I made some sket...