Typography

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Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point size, line length, line-spacing (leading), letter-spacing (tracking), and adjusting the space within letters pairs (kerning).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography

Yeah , thats explain what is typography well. So , what we learnt at class this week is all about typography.

Our lecturer , madam ling informed us before class to bring magazines, scissor and glue.
What we did with all those things?
Is here and now we started to get to know more about typography.

During class , madam ling has let us seen through a lot of slide and video about typography.
And finally , she let us watch this video.

 https://vimeo.com/6854096

Madam Ling requested us to find inspiration through this video . She also want us to convert the inspiration into words and add in to our SECOND Assignment !!!

Yes, it is our second Assignment.
We are required to do what we've done for the first assignment ( the mural ) and add in the inspiration word that taken from the video above and some description in order to create a creative poster using Adobe Indesign.

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AND WHAT I HAVE COME OUT FOR THE INSPIRING SENTENCE IS THIS.

DON'T LET THE BOUNDARIES LIMIT YOUR CREATIVITY.


Here's my sketch for the second assignment.

Gestalt Principle

So basically what we had learned today in class is about gestalt principle.

There are actually 5 principle in it which is similarity , closure , proximity , figure & ground and the last one which is continuity.

Let me show you some example.

The picture below shows the gestalt principle very well and it is easy to understand through this picture. 

Source :https://twobenches.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/gestalt_illustration-01.jpeg

In additional , we have also done something which is related to gestalt principle in class.

During class, we all have been group into 5 group where each group produce a work based on one the gestalt principle that the group leader had chosen.

My group leader was Thiyagu.He had chosen the CLOSURE gestalt principle.

and this is our group.

We come out with the idea of merging durian and tiger into the number of 58. 

Why this idea?

It is because we are also given a task to design a Malaysia Independence Day Poster.

So if we are designing a work which is related to that we can also use it for our Poster Designing task.

That's what i thought.HeeHee..

And this is how it looks like.

The durian tiger

Those picture below are the work of other group.

Figure & Ground

Similarity

Continuity

Proximity

Last but not least,remember that i had mentioned earlier about the Malaysia Independence Day Poster Designing task ?

This is mine.

Madam Ling said that it was too typical.

T^T

That's for today , Bye. =)

The mural of the first assignment.

The deadline of the submission for the first assignment have arrived.

 I had done this.

At first , for the sketch submission i thought that we have to do the sketch using pen tool so i came out with this.

But after realizing that we just need to submit the rough sketch on the paper , i didn't use this anymore even though after the sketch we have to put on color into it.

I redo it again 

and came out with this.

Madam Ling consulted this and given me some advise on how to improve better.

And finally i came out with this!!

This is what i submitted and my final artwork.

Looks much more better right?

Creating vector shapes & color palettes

This week lecture class we create a RGB color palette on a piece of white A4 paper.

Yes , this is it.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF DOING THIS?

we have been informed that we are using this to create our own colors palette in adobe illustrator.

REMEMBER THE PREVIOUS POST : SHAPES?

YES, we are doing those shapes and applying the colors that taken from this paper into those shapes in this week tutorial class.

At first , i thought that we will be doing the shapes that we cut by ourselves.

but madam ling just randomly gave us the work without following the name.

But it is ok , not a big deal.

Is just quite feeling sorry for those who pick my shapes work 

because i cut a lot of small pieces shapes and paste it quite complicated.

It must be very time consuming for them to do this work.

OK,

so i have been given this shapes that done by the others.

This is what i have done.

Here's the step.

Set the image into template. Create new layer and name it.

Click on the rectangle tool *don't release* to get the extra optional shapes tool as shown above.

Start to choose among the shapes tool to create shapes according to the template.

To create the 4 pointed star shape, you have to choose the star tool.

You might get the 5 pointed star as shown below. In order to get 4 pointed star , you have to pick the star tool and double click on anywhere of the area to change the points.

And now you got that four pointed star shape!

This apply on other shapes that you want to create too!For those non-geometric shapes you can create a lot of geometric shapes and combine them using pathfinder or shape builder tool.

The video below will guide you on how to use pathfinder & shape builder tool.

But since this image is having the same shapes in both side, you can use another tool in order to save your time and effort doing the same things for four times!

It is called 'REFLECT'.

Just did one quarter of the part and you can get the other three part in less than 1 minute!

*To get the guideline that shown on the picture , Ctrl+R to view the ruler.Click on the ruler and pull it all the way down or to the right* 

When have you done this , select all , right click go to Transform and pick Reflect.

 Just reflect it and this is what you get!

To create your own color palettes , place your color image into AI.

Next, Create new swatch.

Use Eyedropper tool (I) pick the color from the image.Drag the colors to the new swatch.

Here's come your own color palette.

And this is mine.

P/S : i used gradient for the color on the shapes .If you want to apply but didn't know the way .Please refer to the video below.