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(4 April 2017- 25 April 2017, Week 2 - 5) Nouval Kemalsyah Adhigumilang (0331328) Typograpghy & Hypertextuality Exercise Lectures Lecture 1: Typography In the first few hours we were given a run down of what is typography.  And how can it set an identity to a certain kind of companies/organisation, and how can in-house fonts were made exclusively for them make hem have a stronger identity. Image 1.1. example of in-house font   Here are some few honorable mentions of in-house fonts designers 1. Paul Rand 2. Shigeo Fukuda 3. Reza Abideni 4. Alan Fletcher 5.Wolfgang weindach 6. Suzanna Liko But what is Typography? 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 (leading), and letter-spacing (tracking), and adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning) - Wikipedia.com The...

Nouval Kemalsyah Adhigumilang ( 0331328) Interactive Multimedia Design (28 march 2017) Lecture Second day we were met with a new lecturer  Mr Vinod and Mr. Shamsul. At the beginning of the lecture we were asked "what is typography?", everyone has variants of answer but  The general consensus was that typography was essentially the art of text, and how text could be made into art and deliver a message. After that we were showed our seniors portofolio, and their progress are well documented so its comfortable to see. The first task we were given was a group project  and research a particular calligraphic hand. We were new to calligraphy and so we google it to find all different kind of styles and we chose PF Champion .  Turns out the one we got was actually categorized as a font the difference between font and calligraphy by general is that calligraphy is handwritten and so it usually originated from the old days when there was no printing machine. So now we kn...

Nouval Kemalsyah Adhigumilang ( 0331328) Interactive Multimedia Design So our task today is from these shapes. Its pretty interesting right? no? ok so what do we do from these shapes is to make something out of it it can be anything as long as it is good. so what software we are using is Adobe Illustartor it isnt something that im fond of but it kinda have some similiarity from Photoshop like the shortcut, tools and all other stuff but the main tools are pretty different, Illustrator tend to have a cleaner result rather then photoshop. When starting the work i kinda need a time to get used to the software i started out with the cthulu and mythical creature made by H.P. Lovecraft.  But then i left the data on the school computer so in order to finish the assigment i made a new one. After a few times of getiing used to with adobe illust i began making something more ambitious and more complex than cthulu. So i got this idea that pop up my mind and i was thinking of making a ...