Assignment - Anatomy of Type

In these activities we researched the Anatomy of type and what letters are made up of.

The task was to create an Anatomy of Type poster using Indesign. 

Using only Type with a maximum of three typefaces and the information we learnt

I enjoyed experimenting with type and am proud of my finished product.

The Typefaces I used were Showcard Gothic, Gutami and AR Carter

In this task we needed to pick a Typeface and hand draw the letters we think stand out and best identify the typeface. I chose Broadway. The things that stood out to me were that the lower case letters have no descenders and that the lower case o looks like a yin yang :)

M   g   o   q   j   B

Assignment - Type Families

These activities are all about typefaces, was actually really interesting, usually you look at text quickly for the purpose of reading it but was interesting to stop and analyze each letter individually as well as how they work together.

I chose the faces of 6 celebrities and then picked a typeface I thought matched

I was given the pictures of the shoes and had to match the type to each shoe

I had to create an table in indesign and using the 7 types of typeface categories pick 

3 examples for each

In the second part I needed to research famous typographers and choose one then type the alphabet in lower and uppercase. In my example lower and upper case look exactly the same but I thought that was interesting and the typeface was too cool not to use! lol

In the last activity we needed to retype paragraphs of text and showcase each letter of the alphabet both upper and lower case along with the numbers in the typeface the paragraph was about. 

We chose the layout we wanted to use but all five pages needed to have the same layout.

Branding Activity!

I had lots of drawing to do this week!! I was working on a design for a "Fruitshop"

We were asked to create a logo without using everyday fruit shapes. I used a basic triangle shape and then added spikes to the top like the leaves you would find on a pineapple. I sketched up a few ideas and needed to pick the one I liked the most out of each category.

Fruitshop business card layout

Fruitshop Logo ideas

Fruitshop Tshirt Design ideas

An example of my logo being used on a real shopfront!!

I am looking forward to more work using the designs we came up with in this activity 

and digitally creating the logo!

Technology Activity - Create a CD Cover

This week I created this cd cover using Photoshop and Indesign.
We were given a design brief to work from which stated all the basic elements we needed to use and the rest was up to us!
I needed to export the file as a pdf showing all print marks. 

I think it may take me a while to master Indesign, there is so much to learn!  :)

Grids and Layouts Learning Activity!

We learnt about grids and layouts and there were two activitites to complete. 

In the first one we needed to find examples of two layouts, 

one that we thought didnt appear to use a grid and one that did. 

In the second activity we needed to find two examples from print and then draw in 

where we thought the grid lines would be