Kamal's Design Diary

25/5/17 - Week 8 DST60103, Yip Jinchi Design Studies I: Communication Theory Topic 4 and 5 notes Topic 4 Typography and Print Media The history of printed media and communication follows the progress of civilization and technology. The first recorded method of written communication was long ago as 25,000-3000 years B.C. when humans painted on walls, communicating their beliefs, fears and everyday life. The writing system began with the transition of hunter-gatherer societies to more permanent encampments when it became necessary to count property.  One of the earliest examples was found in Mesopotamia in 3500 B.C., where the Sumerians developed cuneiform to write on clay tablets. The Egyptians later developed hieroglyphic writing; they were used by scribes and priests for taxation. The Chinese developed their own style in 1900 B.C, preserving their writing on bone. The first alphabet script appeared in Palestine in 160 B.C, which influenced early Phoenician and H...

30/5/17 - 6/6/17, Week 9 - Week 10 Kamal Afiq [0330643] Typography and Hypertextuality Project 2 Font Design Lecture Notes Week 9 We didn't have a traditional lecture this week. In class we focused our efforts on further developing our fonts; digitization, fixing errors, etc. We reviewed our progress and gave us feedback on the work we had completed so far. Week 10 We were not given a theoretical lecture this week. Instead Mr. Vinod gave us a lecture/demonstration on how to use FontLab Studio. He talked us through how to setup the font parameters; e.g. Ascender and Cap height. He also taught us how to transfer our glyphs from Illustrator to Fontlab, and how to carry out letterspacing and kerning on our font. He also taught us how to generate the font for use. Instructions Project 2: Font Design Description You will be expected to design a font of 27 western alphabets along with punctuation marks. To begin with choose an existing font d...

23/5/17 - Week 8 DST60103, Yip Jinchi Design Studies I: Communication Theory Research Articulation Video Game Addiction and Wayang Kulit Instructions Assignment 2 Introduction Research a social/economic/environmental/animal issue in Malaysia. Create a visual design to help solve the issue utilising Malaysian cultural art forms and styles. Write a rational to accompany the final design. The assignment lasts from week 6 to week 11. Submission is through TIMeS and a class presentation. Research and Work Processes A short history of video games in Malaysia In Malaysia, the early history of video gaming in Malaysia is quite vague and unknown, as during that time video games were still a new and somewhat niche fact of the entertainment industry. The gaming industry in places like Japan and America were still in their infancy, and as such didn’t really garner a wide interest from the general public until later years. Especially in a developing country like Malaysia. ...

4/5/17 - Week 7 GCD60204, Hafiz Zamri Illustration and Visual Narrative Project 1 Introduction In this lesson, Mr. Hafiz went through with us the details of our first assignment. We are to illustrate a a line from the song 'Concrete Jungle' by Au/Ra. My line is: "swimming with the sharks in your own bathtub" . Our lecturer told us that we need to create a pinterest board and start coming up with rough concepts and ideas for our project.

3/5/17 - Week 7 DST60103, Yip Jinchi Design Studies I: Communication Theory Assignment 2 Introduction and Brickfields trip discussion Assignment 2 Introduction We are to choose one issue in Malaysia and create a visual design to help combat or spread awareness about it. At the same time we are to incorporate traditional malaysian motifs and art styles into the final design. Brickfields trip discussion We went over the pictures we took on the Brickfields trip previously and discussed the different styles restaurants, clothing outlets and other shops used in their typography.