Week 3

3.2.2016 (Week 3) 

Zulkifli, Farah Farisya Syamin (300 359 070)

Typography, Working on the Adobe Illustrator 

Lecture: 

Mr Vinod assisted us on converting our pieces into Adoble Illustrator.  

Instructions:

Task 2 (15%): Type Design
You are to design a number of alphabets and punctuations, as determined by the teacher. You will begin by sketching and exploring a minimum of 3 options.

The sketches of the alphabets are to be submitted on A4 graph paper for selection. As always, you will understand, analyse and reflect on the knowledge acquired during the allotted weeks for the task in your ePortfolio.

Starting with the letter “o” design a string of alphabets of similar characteristics. The subsequent letters must spell your name and therefore the characteristics of the letters must represent your personality.

My Process 

One of my many many attempts. I know understood what my friends were expressing regarding their experience with Ai. It was so hard to get it right and to mimic what I actually designed on paper. 

My Outcome

I ended up going for this one. Yes, it's not how I pictured it to be but it was the closest and at least more presentable than other attempts before. I think it looks playful though yes, it looks superbly immature but for a first timer, I just made peace with this one.

I really wanted it to turn out how I crafted it on paper like the above but, oh well! 

Scanner gone crazy so I had to capture this on my camera. 

Reflection: 

• Experience

Adobe Illustrator was not only challenging my laptop (with countless attempts on self installation that failed that made me had to go to a computer store to get it installed perfectly) but it challenged me as well. It was so hard to work on the Adobe Illustrator, it took a lot of experimenting and a few tutorials to get me somewhere. It was frustrating that I couldn't design it the way I actually intended to but I did the best that I could. 

• Observations

Adobe Illustrator takes a lot of practice! 

• Findings

This task gave me a new found respect for designers. I now understand that it's not an easy job and it takes a lot to come out with a design not only that, there's a lot of time invested as well and not to mention some frustrations of getting it right in the process.