ADVANCED TYPOGRAPHY: Final Compilation and Reflection

Fig. 1. Scarab from Fiona and Cake (S1EP10)

 ADVANCED TYPOGRAPHY: FINAL COMPILATION AND REFLECTION

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Irdhina binti Mazli Sham (0366894)
Advanced Typography - Bachelor of Design in Creative Media - Taylors University
Final Compilation and Reflection



TABLE OF CONTENTS:

  1. Instruction
  2. Blog Links
  3. Task 1
  4. Task 2
  5. Task 3
  6. Reflection


INSTRUCTIONS

TASK 1: LINK

TYPOGRAPHIC SYSTEM


Fig. 2. compilation of the finalised typographic systems [28/4/2025]

WITHOUT GUIDELINES:



WITH GUIDELINES:



TYPE & PLAY

LETTER EXTRACTION:

Fig. 3. Original Photo vs. Extracted letters [12/5/2025]


Fig. 4. Letter shaping process [12/5/2025]

Fig. 5. Extracted letters [12/5/2025]

Fig. 6. Reference typeface (Danger Diabolik) [12/5/2025]

Fig. 7. finalised letterform design [12/5/2025]




MOVIE POSTER:
Fig. 8. finalised poster [12/5/2025]


TASK 2: LINK

KEY ARTWORK

Fig. 9. Lettermark: black on white background (Week 9)


Fig. 10. Lettermark: white on black background (Week 9)

Fig. 11. Chosen colour palette (Week 9)

Fig. 12. Lettermark: actual colour on lightest background (Week 9)

Fig. 13. Lettermark: lightest on darkest background (Week 9)

Fig. 14. GIF Lettermark animation (Week 9)


COLLATERAL

Fig. 15. Post grids (Week 9)

Fig. 16. Collateral 1 (Week 9)

Fig. 17. Collateral 2 (Week 9)

Fig. 18. Collateral 3 (Week 9)

Fig. 19. Instagram account screenshot (Week 9)


TASK 3: LINK

 TYPE EXPLORATION:

This font was made based on the wild runes on Arcane and how their patterns spread to various objects. I decided to do something similar to the patterns' behaviour by creating additional glyphs consisting of letter combinations of two or more letters with some of the capital connections changing when a certain word or letter is typed before it.

Fig. 20. Fontlab Screengrab (lowercase) (Week 13)

Fig. 21. Fontlab Screengrab (uppercase) (Week 13)
Fig. 22. Fontlab Screengrab (numbers and symbols) (Week 13)
Fig. 23. Fontlab Screengrab (lowercase connections) (Week 13)
Fig. 24. Fontlab Screengrab (uppercase connections) (Week 13)



FONT PRESENTATION:

Fig. 25. Font Presentation 1 (Week 13)

Fig. 26. Font Presentation 2 (Week 13)

Fig. 27. Font Presentation 3 (Week 13)

Fig. 28. Font Presentation 4 (Week 13)

Fig. 29. Font Presentation 5 (Week 13)


FONT APPLICATION:

Fig. 30. Font Application 1 (Week 13)

Fig. 31. Font Application 2 (Week 13)

Fig. 32. Font Application 3 (Week 13)

Fig. 33. Font Application 4 (Week 13)

Fig. 34. Font Application 5 (Week 13)


Link to Download Entanglement

Note: Be sure to enable Discretionary Ligatures, Contextual Alternates and Standard Ligatures by going Window > Type > OpenType (Illustrator).

Fig. 35. OpenType Panel (Week 13)

Font Tester:
REFLECTION

EXPERIENCE: Advanced Typography is an experience that is very different from Typography in the first semester. The assignments were a lot more fun and flexible because you can integrate the things you like in a subtle or obvious way, which makes the assignments more enjoyable despite how time-consuming some of them are (like task 3). It taught me a lot of things in terms of design and how typography can make or break said design. Additionally, it also gave me a lot of respect to people who dabble in typography as their work after having a glimpse of what they have to do, especially with how old some of the softwares such as Fontforge.

OBSERVATION: Based on what I have seen from my friends and seniors' work, as well as my own, I found that despite how rigid it can be on surface level, there are many things in Typography that can be flexible enough in terms of designing if you brainstorm enough while still considering the readability and function.

FINDINGS: From what I found when looking through references,Typography can act as a canvas that encompass a variety of themes. However, as exciting as it is, you also need to know your limit.

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