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Reflection

This is the most relaxed class in semester one, because we dont have many rules, the class is not serious and teachers are friendly. Lectures are like a new finding classes that I can know some histories of design industry. And know how the original and famous design worked. Tutorials are doing actual activities to feel how design works by ourselves. I learned a lot from all my creative classmates when sharing our ideas. In general, the tutorial of this semester taught me most about typography that I find my ideas of creating unlocked letterforms. Additionally, I got more experiences in every group work that improve my communication skills. The challenges maybe my laziness because some of my post are not in time order because I wrote it in my phone's reminder and I always forgot to post it on Tumblr.

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My favourite spot in NGV.

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lonely but so full of splender

ASK ME ANYTHING 

Rationale and Reflection

Before starting my Ask Me Anything project, I never thought that I could interview some famous people someday. I was so worried that I would not receive any reply when Andy told us we should send an e-mail to all the five person we wrote down on the paper. But surprisingly, I soon received the first reply from my list and also he is my first artist on the list.

ZHONG XIA YOU is famous Chinese humanity and art blogger with one hundred thousand followers on Sina Weibo (Chinese version of Instagram). Her artworks have been noted for its stylized cinematic quality. The reason why I chose her as my interviewee is that I can see the great sorrow in her paintings, although most of them are about the relationships between human and universe. In addition, I just started painting on my laptop and I found that it is difficult for a beginner to actually create something. Hence, by doing this interview, I was hoping to have a deep understanding of her artworks and in the meantime to learn some skills that could be helpful for people who want to start painting. 

When it comes to the layout work. I decided to use the square as the shape of the book because I wanted the publication to look more like an art book. Besides, My interviewer’s works are also suitable for presenting in squares.

I also used simple lines to visualize the content of the text. By combining minimalism with my understanding of his works, I have created works to explore the relationship between people and universe. Everyone is like a lonesome planet in the infinite universe, lonely but so full of splender. 

The biggest problem I encountered is that I don’t know how which way to bind the book.At first I wanted to made it into a form of turning pages ( a handy book with page number and index. But after I print out my prototype. I found that the paper I choose is to hard( 350gsm ) and made it almost impossible to fold. ( I tried to fold but the edge will get nasty). All my art works and layout were done in Illustrator (because I completely know nothing about Indesign) and it gets a little bit tricky when I decided to change them. So l came up with the ideal of using rings to bine the pages and it look really polished when l finally combine them.

three versions of my work

I have to say it feels really good when i got the final version. My interviewee posted it online and received a lot of positive comments. l started from noting to a polished small publication. It is hard but ,still, worth it.

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I think Raymond did good jobs in every projects that he always has his own style to do with his design. I checked the web of the creative and found that she reposted the zine that Raymond made and someone even ask where they can get the zine from. I think this is success. I mean like even the creative are proud of a fan like you.

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Package Design of Image & Identity course. I do love my design that follows Less Is More. The whole design is simple and relaxed which suits the personality of my product as calm and friendly.

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In this tutorial, we showed our works by making a small exhibition in groups. In my group, we sticking the arrows to point at our exhibition to make a guidance. The idea of sticking on both side of stairs is mine. I thought the white background allows our works attract people's attention. And we put our works in order to follow the order of stairs that people can see our works when walking. Additionally, other two groups are clever that using the equipment that's automatic. And the last group's idea is a little similar but more convenient coz we dont even have to walk. So in today's workshop, we can not only see other's question of design but also know how they present their works.

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This week our activity was about using clay to communicate. At first, we used ice cream stick and clay tools to created some textures to see how clay works. Then we used clay to write something and send to others in class and get replies. When writing on clay, I found that if I wanted my writing be clear to understood, I could not connect each letter. So my typography on clay is bold and simple. This is a deeper step to make new friends in class.

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The first assignment of tutorial is my question of design. My question is “Can design be taught? ”. As creativity is an important part of design, can the way of thinking be transformed by others? Additionally, some skills may be taught suah as drawing or using software, but can the message of our works can be transformed the same thing? In this project, I am trying to think out the related things of learning design and use the related things to make my question. I create letters by making up things or just use something look like. My “n” was eaten after shooting.

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In Friday tutorial, the class activities are group work of writing pangrams. In first activity, we need to write with water and brush. It was very hard that that day was too hard and our words dried quickly. We tried different ways of writing. To be more faster, we wrote words linking together but found it was difficult to recognize if it dried. In the second activity, we used ribbons to make it. When words linked together, it was already a new type of typography.

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A project is finished with a friend who worded in architectural design industry for 8 years.

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The first class of communication design tutorial is to use anything in our bags to make our name so that the classmates on our table can know more about each other. This was the first time I want to change my English name because there are eight letters in 'Florence' and I only got few things in my bag. Finally I finished by taking apart some of my stuff. The second activity was a group work of making a sentence or a phrase by using the stuff from our group. We made the phrase of my idea “blank space” because I thought we both have no idea. And finally, all class finished alphabet. So in this class, we made new friends and knew the ideas from someone else. The things we made is about typography, and we knew how typography works in our unnoticed daily life.

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In week 6 workshop, we had group works about choosing coloured shapes to create alphabet. It was really interesting to use limited shapes to make unlimited ways of piecing them together. It was also a kind of typography that can transform message efficiently. I enjoyed every groupworks that we can share our thinkings that allows us to learn from each other.

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The activity of this tutorial was about taking photos of the letter appearing in uni. Actually, this is the first time that I viewing the whole uni so carefully. In this activity, I found many unlocked ways of typography. The letter could be recognized by different perspective. I learned that changing perspective is an effective way to design and a new way to create typography like gathering different things together.

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Grids and Typography

The Friday lecture focused on the origins of page-space and the development of the grid in early typography. the man who invented the grid in the typography design is called Luca Pacioli(which happens to be the father of accounting which makes it much more difficult to search for his work other than accounting). He invented typefaces with the grid method with the help of the great Leonardo Da Vinci. 

Around the 1500s, designers(wasn’t called designer back then) started to use the grid to design typefaces. 

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This lecture was interesting that I just found the typography is not as simple as I thought. Especially the example “A” I never thought that the edges were designed with circle. The history of typography made me curious about what's people thinking when they design a new typography and what's the inspiration came from.

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This tutorial was about practice of doing our “ask me anything” project. We got several pages from magazine and to do our collage. Before we doing our work, teacher showed us some work of collage designer, I got inspiration from them. I choose the wasted part of zine to create the outline and it even saved time that I dont need to cut the shape carefully. The main part I focused on the combination of face and arm those two elements came from different zine, and I made it look like the face climbing out. Some other people in class their choose a whole page as background and cut images form other pages to stick on the background, which i think is also very good.

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so…last tutorial was about thinking how we present our "ask me anything" interview and do a quick sketch. I decided to do it with zine including text, pictures and collage. In addition, another activity is folding paper to know how A size works. And it is very helpful for making a zine to make a several-pages book only use a A3 paper.