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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 ...

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...

17/9/2018 - 1/10/2018  (Week 7 - Week 8 ) Ng Shu Zhi (0327158) Typography - Project 2 -   Typosexual Typographic Exhibition - Collateral  LECTURE Week 7: We had a lecture on Type Design Methodology where we presented about Glyphs, Kerning and Special characters. Week 8: [Tutorial] INSTRUCTIONS WORK fig 3.1 fig 3.2 fig 3.3 I then realised I made many mistakes regarding sizing and tried more exploration with designs. fig 3.4 The design I first made after looking at Vogue magazines and they had this overlapping effect to them so I tried to imitate it on the poster  fig 3.5 The final outcome for the design, I followed the vogue/retro idea which my friend gave me while making the key artwork. fig 3.6 The final outcome together with colour. I used back the original colour in the picture since it was a reddish colour which was already planned since the beginning to represent intimacy. fig 3.7 Unf...

17/9/2018 - 1/10/2018  (Week 4 - Week 6 ) and 17/9/2018 - 1/10/2018  (Week 7 - Week 8 ) Ng Shu Zhi (0327158) Typography - Project 1 & 2 LECTURE Week 4: [Public Holiday] Week 5: We had a lecture on the history of typography and 5 design influencers Week 6: We had 2 lectures; Thinking before drawing and Type anatomy Week 7: We had a lecture on Type Design Methodology where we presented about Glyphs, Kerning and Special characters. Week 8: [Tutorial] INSTRUCTIONS WORK fig 3.1 A picture I took of my lips for this project fig 3.2 Since the topic was typosexual so obviously the first idea that came to my mind was to find an image related to more sensual themes. fig 3.3  fig 3.4 Another design using the function of the lips which is yelling. fig 3.5 Experimenting with the use of the lips, this one I experimented with the idea of biting like those lip stick advertisements where they would bit eon the tub...