Final poster : thoughts

After a meeting with the professors, I started reediting them and using elements that worked from different posters and combining them into one poster. I played with the composition, alignment, placement of text to achieve the final look to the poster shown below: This is the last type project and looking back at how much I have…

Making the final poster

For the final A1 type poster, we started by making 5 trials on A3 paper. Firstly, I edited my word poster again. I was really unhappy with the colors in the previous A2 poster I submitted so I went over the word with the polygonal lasso tool piece by piece and it took me few hours to…

Reflections on type

Through all the projects I had this semester, my knowledge has evolved from almost nothing about type to worrying about rags and medium grey! Below is what I have understood about type and design through this course: Letters : Designer as link-finder, connector I learnt to look at letters as letter forms, appreciating them for their semiotics and finding…

Final stages

Printing is always and always a struggle! 😦 Once I was done with the final adjustments, I decided to print them directly from inDesign as I usually do after saving. For some reason, perfectly aligned lines get all messed up when printed and I have no idea why. I asked my friends and no matter…

Making 40 experiments : Arabic – part 1 and 2

So finally, I chose the following text for my paragraph project. It is a hadith of the Prophet(PBUH) about leading a simple and austere life in this world. For the word project, I used the word “Ornate/ مزخرف” and so I chose a paragraph on the opposite meaning. عن أبي العباس سهل بن سعد الساعدي – رضي الله عنه – قال: جاء رجل إلى النبي – صلى الله عليه وسلم –، فقال: يا رسول الله، دلني على عمل إذا عملته أحبني الله وأحبني الناس، فقال: «ازهد في الدنيا يحبك الله، وازهد فيما عند الناس يحبك الناس» . حديث حسن رواه ابن ماجه وغيره بأسانيد حسنة. Meaning: Sahl bin Sa’d…

Paragraph research

For my word project, I used the word “مزخرف” which means ornate and so for the paragraph project, I did research on the word “Austere” which is the opposite of ornate. Austere also relates to a strict and disciplined life apart from “plain and boring” and the following are some of the examples I found…

Final typed sentences pt.5

Printing Final printing was a bit frustrating. I wanted to print the words “mean and dangerous” on A4 tracing paper so that I can place it above my text as a way to create emphasis. However, every time I printed it, the paper jammed in the printer! I made sure to print it from Tray…

Expressive type experimentations pt.4

Expressive type is definitely a realm of type that I would love to explore through future projects. I discovered it by accident through this project. I printed some sheets with my sentence on it and I was wondering if I made some scratches on the paper or folded the paper would it make any difference….

Typesetting : Color pt.3

Here, I was trying to create a second sentence inside my sentence which I highlighted in red, “danger marched towards the pair”. I also coloured teacher and globe in blue so that we can understand who the pair is. However, I do no think it is working as well because it is little hard to…

Sentence : Typesetting stage 2

The next class was a really important one. The professors taught about alignment, intention, emphasis and informed decisions. Through the class, I learnt some key points that I will try to be mindful about when typeset in the future; placing text on a page with intention and that having a reason for its placement and composition,…

Sentence pt.1

After we finished with the word project, we were all given words to make a sentence on our own. The words clearly did not seem to go together to make any sensible sentence, but it would not even make any nice nonsense sentence either. So I replaced “antiquated” with “dangerous” and “math” with “teacher”. So…

Word project final stages

Once I was done with the word, I added 4-5 quills around the letter forms to make it look more organic and as if the things were sprouting out of the letters. Then it was time for photographing.  I photographed my paper weaved word last week in the small garden next to Graphic Design and…