DGN1302 · Typography 1

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

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

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Effectively use the elements and principles of design;
2. Understand typographical terminology;
3. Create design structures, grids, layout and composition;
4. Work with texts, creating a hierarchy;
5. Recognise and understand the formal elements of design, such as space, line and texture in relation to type;
6. Produce sophisticated type rendered by hand or generated by computer;
7. Explore experimental typography;
8. 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.

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