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CDS1302 · Typography 1
2025 Handbook6 credit pointsLevel 1Department of Design
Overview
This unit introduces the fundamental principles of typography. You will utilise type both as a communicative and expressive tool. Contemporary and historical methods of typographic production, from print to digital media are examined. You are encouraged to critically analyse and question the relationships between type and meaning, type and language. Emphasis is placed upon the acquisition of skills and knowledge.
Offerings
| Campus | Teaching period | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Caulfield | First semester | Teaching activities are on-campus (ON-CAMPUS) |
| Caulfield | Second semester | Teaching activities are on-campus (ON-CAMPUS) |
Assessment
The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.
| # | Assessment | Type | Weight | Hurdle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 - Exercises | Exercise | 10% | — |
| 2 | 2 - Project 1 | Project | 40% | — |
| 3 | 3 - Project 2 | Project | 50% | — |
100% in-semester assessment
Requisites
prerequisite
prohibition
Learning outcomes
- Effectively use the elements and principles of design;
- Understand typographical terminology;
- Create design structures, grids, layout and composition;
- Work with texts, creating a hierarchy;
- Recognise and understand the formal elements of design, such as space, line and texture in relation to type;
- Produce sophisticated type rendered by hand or generated by computer;
- Explore experimental typography;
- Use type to create an emotional and intellectual impact with an understanding of the relationship between type, image and language.
Workload
12 hours per week including 3 contact hours plus 9 hours of independent study.
| Activity | Duration |
|---|---|
| Studio activities | 36 hours |
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