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...

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...