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Amber Houbara
Jul 18, 20204 min read
5.4.1 - Exercise: Birthday list
Brief For this exercise, you are going to make up a poster list for yourself. It is intended that you keep it pinned to a noticeboard or...
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Amber Houbara
Jul 17, 20207 min read
5.3.1 - Exercise: Giving information
Find some examples of information graphics. For example bus timetables, city maps, diagrams or representations of statistical data. Look...
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Amber Houbara
Jul 17, 20205 min read
5.2.2 - Exercise: Judging a book by its cover | part 2
Choose a book by an author you are familiar with. You are going to design two different covers for it, one using illustrations or...
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Amber Houbara
Jul 10, 20207 min read
5.2.1 Exercise - Judging a book by its cover | part 1
Choose a book by an author you are familiar with. You are going to design two different covers for it, one using illustrations or...
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Amber Houbara
Jul 7, 20203 min read
Research point - Book Covers
Research point Many hundreds of paperback books have been produced over the years. Look at as many variations as you can find to see how...
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Amber Houbara
Jul 4, 20207 min read
5.1 - Exercise: Magazine pages
Choose a magazine, newspaper or journal and work out the grid or grids they have used. You will probably need to look at least four pages...
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Amber Houbara
Jun 30, 20205 min read
4.6.3 Assignment 4 - Show me... | Article Design
Context Typographers and type foundries (the companies that commission and produce typefaces) have always had to promote their latest...
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Amber Houbara
Jun 30, 20206 min read
4.6.2 Assignment 4 - Show me... | Font Design + Magazine Cover
Context Typographers and type foundries (the companies that commission and produce typefaces) have always had to promote their latest...
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Amber Houbara
Jun 24, 20205 min read
4.6.1 Assignment 4 - Show me... | Context / Research type foundries
Context Typographers and type foundries (the companies that commission and produce typefaces) have always had to promote their latest...
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Amber Houbara
Jun 6, 20206 min read
4.5.3 - Exercise: Hierarchy/ Book Review
Using about 500 words of Lorum Ipsum (or other dummy text) you are going to design three different pages: • an interview with a TV actor...
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Amber Houbara
Jun 6, 20206 min read
4.5.2 Exercise: Hierarchy/ Hardware or Software Review
Using about 500 words of Lorum Ipsum (or other dummy text) you are going to design three different pages: • an interview with a TV actor...
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Amber Houbara
Jun 6, 20207 min read
4.5.1 - Exercise: Hierarchy/ interview
Using about 500 words of Lorum Ipsum (or other dummy text) you are going to design three different pages: • an interview with a TV actor...
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Amber Houbara
May 20, 20203 min read
4.5.2 - Exercise - Lorem Ipsum
Lorem Ipsum is dummy text with more-or-less normal distribution of letters that makes it look like readable English. It has been used for...
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Amber Houbara
May 19, 20205 min read
4.5.1 - Exercise: Lorem Ipsum
Lorem Ipsum is dummy text with more-or-less normal distribution of letters that makes it look like readable English. It has been used for...
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Amber Houbara
May 11, 20209 min read
Research Point - Collecting Magazines and Brochures
Research point If you haven’t already, now is the time to collect as many newspapers, newsletters, magazines and brochures as you can....
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Amber Houbara
Apr 16, 20205 min read
4.4.3 - Exercise: If the face fits
Part 2 Now identify which fonts you might use in each of the following commissions: • A poster to advertise an after-school club for boys...
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Amber Houbara
Apr 14, 20207 min read
4.4.2 Exercise: If the face fits
Part 2 Now identify which fonts you might use in each of the following commissions: • A short story in a woman’s magazine entitled “I...
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Amber Houbara
Apr 13, 20202 min read
4.4.1 Exercise: If the face fits
Part 1 Create your own sample book of typefaces on your computer that you can refer to. Organise them into: Serif for continuous text;...
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Amber Houbara
Apr 13, 20206 min read
Jonathan Hoefler: Typeface Design / 'Abstract' Documentary series by Netflix
Netflix came up with an amazing fasicnating documentary series on design. My sister recommended me to watch the series and I've seen...
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Amber Houbara
Apr 13, 20202 min read
Research point - Vernacular Typography
Research point Vernacular typography can be very well crafted but it can also be crudely created signs done in a hurry. Either way it is...
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