Typography

What is typography? Well, out of the choices given to us, I personally liked the definition that typography is the management of letters. However, given other ways of describing the word also made me think more about what typography was. New ideas were further explored by questions given to us by Paul, which we had to try and answer in the first task of the morning. For example, we were asked: do we need spaces between words and do we need punctuation? After attempting the first task, we then had to analyse a variety of letterforms by choosing one to then scale, invert, section, layer, outline, deconstruct and then recompose.

'Recompose'

Later on, we then had to write our names by tracing on to the baseline as carefully as possible, this took me longer than most(!) As this was done on tracing paper, I decided to take a photo of my work with a pattern behind it, which I then retouched a little in Photoshop.

After lunch we were given a worksheet and the task to explore type by rendering or tracing the words. from the typographic specimen. Out of the list of words, I chose the word 'soft' to experiment with. I thought the outcomes were satisfactory and fulfilled the brief, however they weren't the most dynamic or exciting looking. I think this was to do with the choice of word, as the type had to match the meaning. If I were to do the task again, I would perhaps choose 'Hard' or 'Down' to explore instead.The end of the day was a chance to have a look at everyones work, which I always really enjoy doing, and sum up what we had seen and learnt with Paul. I think there was a lot to be taken out of this workshop, and I will definitely use some of the techniques used in other work.
 

'Composition'

'Repetition'