Design Journal: Tamara Audrey

27.08.18 - 08.10.18 (Week 1 - Week 7) Tamara Audrey Saputra (0335846) Illustration and Visual Narrative Exercises Lectures  Week 1: Introduction 27.08.18 (Week 1) Our first class began with an introduction to the module and the medium of communication the lecturer will use, in this case, Google Classroom. Our lecturer, Mr. Hafiz wanted us to really get used to the usage of Pen Tool in Illustrator as this will be an extremely essential tool in the design field. Hence, our first exercise is to trace out the Vormator objects and create a character out of these set of objects. Vormator was actually a challenge to showcase how limitations could trigger the best out of our creativity. 1 fig 1.1: The Vormator Challenge fig. 1.2: Tracing Result Week 2: Character Design 03.09.18 (Week 2) This week's lecture we were taught that by infusing stereotypes into our character designs allow us to communicate our character's role/personalities better t...

29.08.18 - 03.10.18 (Week 1 - Week 6) Tamara Audrey Saputra (0335846) Typography Exercises Lectures Lecture 1: Introduction to Typography 29.08.18 (Week 1) Our first class started with a brief introduction to what we could expect from this module in the following weeks. We were also told to directly make our own blog based e-portfolio, where all of our processes, reflections, project and etc will be displayed there. Mr. Vinod, our lecturer, have also addressed the kind of structure and criteria he wishes to see in our e-portfolio. Such as the labelings and the appropriate use of typeface for the headings and sub-headings in order to make it organized. A quick background story of typography and terminologies were also introduced to us. For instance, we get to know that the word "Font" originated from a French word "Foundry" which relates to the casting of letters back in the olden days.  Terminologies 1. Font - The process of creat...