Category: Unit 2
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Experiments with typography 2
Experiments with typography 2 I carried out more experiments on similar lines as the previous experiments. Most of these are included in my Unit 2 slides. I moved from single letters to words and paragraphs. For these experiments, I used the tools present inside Adobe Illustrator to generate different outputs, which attempt to create confusion…
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Experiments with typography 1
Experiments with typography 1 At the start of year 2, my inquiry became specific to designing language to resist text based surveillance by OCRs aided by AI. In my initial explorations, I tried to create letterforms, on which I introduced confusion through different methods. Few of the ways were by overlapping similar or different letterforms…
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Precarity and Critical Design
Precarity and Critical Design The cross-years studio on Industry and Precarity was an eye opener. I came across a publication by Afonso Matos, Who can afford to be critical. The recorded conversations and thoughts about critical design, graphic design and industry and precarity in the book, were similar to conversations I had with my peers…
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Workshop by Bas Jacobs
Workshop by Bas Jacobs The type workshop by Bas Jacobs was essential in my main project of this unit. I attended the workshop expecting to learn how to make a font and publish it. I did learn how to make a working font, well, at least at a beginner level at least. But I took…
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Positions through essaying
Positions through essaying Video Essay Written Component For this written component, I have shared the transcript for the video essay in a typed out format, exactly as it is on the video itself. As a comparison on the same page as my inquiry, I went ahead and wrote the first part of my video essay…
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Positions through contextualising
Positions through contextualising Bibliography “We no longer have any desire for design that is driven by need. Something less prestigious than a “designed” object can do the same thing for less money. The Porsche Cayenne brings you home, but any car will do the same thing, certainly less expensively and probably just as quickly. But…
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Positions through iterating
Positions through iterating Bibliography “We no longer have any desire for design that is driven by need. Something less prestigious than a “designed” object can do the same thing for less money. The Porsche Cayenne brings you home, but any car will do the same thing, certainly less expensively and probably just as quickly. But…