The start of another week and my illness has very nearly cleared up aside the constant weak cough. It started off with the usual morning lectures with Steve. Lasting around 2 hours we thoroughly went through Dreamweaver and its easy desirable way to create a feedback form and produce a CSS document for the content. After the very informative presentation created by Steve, it was back to work for the final half hour before lunch.
For this half hour I took the time to continue with the referral work on A3 which is now finally complete (Thank god). Now it time to get on with the fun stuff. The build of course, as this is one of the best parts of the course yet. With an already experienced mind on the matter I plan to crack on with the project immediately in order to gain a slight distanced lead against the assignment brief. That way I will be able to crack on with A4 – Image Restoration feedback and not have to worry about falling behind on the current project.
Tuesday struck and at 1st I had a slight doubt in matter about whether I was going to make it before the 9 o’clock lock up time. This lead to a light comment from Steve about appearing alert and ready for the job when entering the classroom (I think that was aimed at me, but I could be wrong). Following a lecture about more Typography we fired up the machines to get on with the presentation assignment on a famous typographer. But wait! Immediately after opening the IE application to gain more research, we were prompt to shut down out computers and begin a timed task on typography. This involved creating a book cover on the various different fonts out there. At only 10:40 am we had an hour and 20 minutes to crack on with the job. After running the Olympic printer run for a colour copy of my design it was in fact too late to hand in the deign as the 12 noon deadline was narrowly missed. But luckily this was only a practice run to get us in the mood for future preferences.
Following the time task and lunch we carried on with our work on the presentation. For this project I have been given Stanley Morison, the creator of Times font styles and Blado. At the moment I am a little frustrating at the amount of research I have gained, and how much I will need for the presentation. Stanley really seems like a difficult person to research on as I have had no luck what so ever on finding anything about the companies he actually worked. I was hoping to perhaps get my hands on an article he produced or some information as to how he came up with the font styles. The long winding road awaits.
Seminar this week was a wake up call for the sketchbook assignment. It appears the majority of the class has let it slip a little through focusing completely on the other assignments. I for one do not personally know the learning out comes which is something that was said to be essential in the assignment in order to pass it.
So for this week I have a lot of work to be getting on with. So here we go, this is what I need to do:
- Read the learning out comes of Unit 4 and be sure that I understand them.
- Produce a draft presentation for next Tuesday’s seminar group.
- Manipulate all the images for A5, ready to be placed in Dreamweaver.
- Gain more inspirational images for my sketchbook and fully annotate.
- And produce 4 journal comments on other students journal entry.
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I think that if you're struggling to find information about your specific typographer, you should maybe come at the assignment from a different angle. Maybe you could try to focus on the fonts he made, and analyse these works specifically. The assignment sheet does say the presentation should be on the 'work of a notable typographer'.
I think that every learnt a lot from the seminar groups this week. A1 is as important, if not more important, than any of the other assignments and one than need to be keep on the go consistently through out the course.
For the assignment Presentation there should be more focus on the fonts created by the typographer and go into the different parts of the fonts and explain the differences between his fonts.
I got Claude Garamond for my typographer and had 11 slides(ish) and only two were focused on the typographer himself. Hope it offers a bit of help.
Thanks Chris, I beleive that will help out a great deal.
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