CDS2304 · Typography 2

Overview

This elective builds upon CDS1302/VCO1302 Typography 1. The unit comprises a series of theoretical and practical exercises. You are encouraged to build upon your skills and knowledge of typography and begin to critically analyse and question the relationships between type and meaning, type and language. Emphasis is placed upon conceptual development and a willingness to approach typography perceptively and with curiosity. You are encouraged to pursue individual outcomes to projects that indicate a willingness to explore and experiment within an awareness of the history of typography. The skills and knowledge acquired form a solid basis to support the major area of graphic design.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

100% in-semester assessment

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Effectively use the elements and principles of design;
2. Create design structures, grids, layout and composition;
3. Work with texts, creating a hierarchy;
4. Examine typography in two and-three dimensions;
5. Produce more sophisticated type rendered by hand or generated by computer;
6. Explore experimental typography;
7. Use type to create an emotional and intellectual impact with an understanding of the relationship between type, image and language;
8. Skilfully and expressively use both informative and artistic modes to create a holistic vision of the world of typography;
9. Demonstrate a greater awareness of the historical development of typography;
10. Examine the relationship between communication and form in relation to typographic practice.

Workload

12 hours per week including 3 contact hours plus 9 hours of independent study.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.