Britney Chow (0350043)

11.10.2021 - 31.10.2021 (Week 8 - Week 10) Britney Chow Pei Jun / 0350043 / BDCM Design Principles Lectures and Project 2 LECTURES  Introduction A designer's role is to solve problems with effective visual communication. Ranging from personal goals to community events, and from corporate functions to world changing projects. Observation Be attentive to your surroundings Pay attention to the details and to be analytical about them Sources of observation can stem from artifacts, daily happenings, physical surroundings, and such.  An active act of acquiring information through the senses, of a subject matter in its natural setting. Senses are important for us to know, feel, understand, analyze and even plan what we want to do. Important to designers as it enables them t...

21.9.2021 - 15.10.2021 (Week 6 - Week 8) Britney Chow Pei Jun / 0350043 / BDCM Design Principles Lectures and Project 1 LECTURES Self portrait A self representation in the form of a drawing, painting, sculpture, design.  A visual depiction of the self. Represents the designer or artist. How they see themselves, what they're feeling and how they want to be seen by others. Not necessarily about drawing one's appearance, it's often an exercise in self-exploration.  Sometimes, we define ourselves by the things we own or like. Self How others see me? (Physical traits and personality) How I see myself?  My experiences My interests My thoughts  fig 1.0; Hoessein Enas Self portrait; sauce: ( http://faizalsidik.blogspot.com/2015/05/hoessein-enas-dalam-koleksi-balai-seni.html) ...

15.10.2021 - 12.11.2021 (Week 8 - Week 12) Britney Chow Pei Jun / 0350043 / BDCM Typography Task 3A : Type Design and Communication LECTURES All lectures are completed in  Task 1 - Exercise 1 & 2 INSTRUCTIONS For task 3, we're to create our own typeface. TASK PROGRESSION Research fig 1.0; Agency FB; sauce: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_FB ) I think that Agency Fb look kinda cool as it is more of a square-type typeface, however there are some strokes that are over the square, for example the left corner of the letter "A". fig 1.1; Grov Condensed AB Regular; sauce: ( https://en.fontke.com/font/10397298/ ) Next, I went to check out some other fonts from other websites as well and I stumble upon this "weird" looking typeface. I couldn't tell why it attra...

24.9.2021- 8.10.2021 (Week 5 - Week 7) Britney Chow Pei Jun / 0350043 / BDCM Typography Task 2 : Typographic Exploration and Communication LECTURES All lectures are completed in Task 1 - Exercise 1 & 2 INSTRUCTIONS  In this task, we are to express the content typographically in the link provided in a 2-page editorial spread. No images are allowed. However, some very minor graphical elements, such as line, shade, etc. might be allowed. We should utilize the knowledge gained in the exercises and other modules from the same semester, and we will use Adobe InDesign to typographically compose and express the text within a given size (200 x 200 per page). We may use Adobe Illustrator to create headline expression should we feel the need to do so. However the final layout is to be completed in Adobe InDesign. We Explore several options in expression and layout (sketches). Execute a good layout, with an expressiv...