Noun. Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing, and letter-spacing, as well as adjusting the space between pairs of letters. A quote that stood out to me was that “95% of…

“What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind” -Wendell Phillips Before we covered this topic, I knew what a printing press was, but I wasn’t aware of the scale of which it changed the printing and typographic world. One thing that stood out to me from the lecture was the…

The Golden Ratio and Fibonacci sequence were two things that I had heard of before, but I didn’t realise the role they had to play within design. This is due to the mathematical ratio which is commonly found in nature. As a result, designers use it to create organic-looking and visually pleasing compositions. The Fibonacci…

noun. The style and appearance of printed matter. The art or procedure of arranging type or processing data and printing from it.  Before I began researching specifically into type specimen, I wanted to make sure I fully understood what typography was. I had a basic knowledge to it; that I knew what it looked like….

“Uniquely exciting time to be designing user interface and digital tools” Wilson Miner is a digital product designer working in San Francisco. He has worked as an interactive designer for Apple in 2006 and gave a talk called ‘When We Build’ in 2011 about how we shape our environment through what we design. After watching…

“Point, line and plane are the building blocks of design. From these elements, designers create image, icons, textures, patterns diagrams, animations and typographic systems.” -Ellen Lupton  1) Point: noun. A dot or other punctuation mark. The smallest element of art. It may be used to indicate position and location. Point is small in relation to…

After completing my brainstorming and research, I narrowed my possible manifesto down to three possibilities. I sketched up a couple of ideas for each of these. I took a lot of inspiration from Bauhaus so when sketching out my ideas I decided to stick to only using rectangles and lines to see if I could…

For Project 00 we had to come up with a manifesto that we would be able to use as a means of motivation throughout the year. At first I wasn’t exactly sure what a manifesto was or what it entailed. So, before I started brainstorming any ideas I carried out some research including the basic…