Week 01: Introduction
History and Futures - Welcome back!
You will be working towards achieving the following learning outcomes detailed in the Assignments tab:
LO2: Contextualise – appraise the social, political and historical contexts in which design practice operates.
LO3: Analyse – evaluate research findings and use sound judgment informed by critical debate at the forefront of the academic discipline.
LO4: Distil – position a creative strategic insight that has been distilled and refined through an informed investigation.
LO6: Make – select and utilise relevant tools, skills and technologies in the delivery, iteration and sustainable production of an outcome.
LO7: Collaborate – demonstrate inclusive and empathetic strategies to plan and execute a project across distributed collaborative situations.
LO8: Design – realise a final solution that evidences its strategic journey and clear relationship between form and function.
Week 01: Lecture series - Stuart Tolley
Identifying the contemporary and historical significance and impact that typography has had on a location
Ah, here we go again. Week 1, and according to our cohort’s whats app group, we’ve all been secretly chomping at the bit to get started on this next module. Typography which is always a designer’s favourite.
A slightly new format has been introduced where we alternate between reading, exclusive interviews, book extracts, podcasts and archive footage to (hopefully) give us a deeper understanding of the subject.
Visual History of Type by Paul McNeil
Following on from the lecture and what is recommended on the reading list, I made my first book purchase on the module ;)
This visual feast is a comprehensive guide of typography since the advent of printing, mid-fifteenth century to the present day. Each entry is arranged chronologically with more than 320 typefaces are displayed in the form of their original type specimens or earliest printing.
Visual History of Type
A bumper thick issue, Filled page by page, an each entry is supported by an introduction and description of characteristics of the typeface. From Guttenbergs Bastarda 1454 from his invention of printing to the last entry Infini from 2015. There is also a comical nod to Comic Sans (Designers Pet hate) and why it has been vilified since 1994.
It is a fantastic resource to have and I’m sure I will be referencing it alot over this module.