Kamal's Design Diary

28/3/17  - 4/7/17, Week 1 - Week 13 Kamal Afiq [0330643] Typography and Hypertextuality Final Submissions Instructions Exercises Project 1 A Story Book Project 2 Font Design Final Project Kinetic Typography Exercise Submissions Calligraphy submission. Digitized lettering submission. Lettering submission.  Type expression submission.  Type expression submission. Project 1 A Story Book Submissions Google drive link -  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6aqU66vURR8enBxaENRbkpUSWc Project 2 Font Design Submission All the finished letterforms. Font design submission, preview of the OTF/TTF is open in windows. Final Project Kinetic Typography Submissions Kinetic Typography Poster Submission. Frames of the animation, taken every half second. Kinetic Typography Animation Submission. Feedback Calligra...

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...

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. ...

2/5/17 - 23/5/17, Week 5 - Week 8 Kamal Afiq [0330643] Typography and Hypertextuality Project 1 A Story Book Lecture Notes Lecture 5: The personality of type This week we delved deeper into the small details type designers put into their work. Small differences in the appearance of curves, ligatures, serifs and other parts of letters gives each typeface its own distinct character and personality. Type designers take great care to create letterforms that are both harmonious and expressive. The shape of the counter-form (the negative space of the letterforms) can also distinctly highlight the differences in the shapes of letterforms. He concluded by saying that all the principles of graphic design also apply to that of typography; be it symmetry, contrast, domination, etc. Lecture 6: Basic introduction to inDesign Mr. Vinod and Mr. Shamsul thought us through the basics of using Adobe Indesign today instead of the standard lecture. They taught us how to format th...