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Dimension workshop

I wasn't in the studio today, but I took the time to review the supporting sheet Jordy provided us with. I created this little composition to practice my new skills.

I believe this exercise will help when I reach the stage of creating advertising for my own packaging for the Major Project.

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Typography workshop / Legibility & Gestalt

The first part of the workshop delved into legibility and type specifications. We explored the elements that contribute to the coherence of a typeface, which I found particularly interesting. The session was full of theoretical insights and factual information about typefaces, providing us with a deeper understanding of the subject. We familiarised ourselves with terminology and applied it practically through a task, ensuring that we adhered to the rules and positioned the letterforms correctly. Additionally, we tested our knowledge with a quiz on type terms.

The second part of the workshop was about ligatures. We had the opportunity to create our own ligatures by tracing the given letter shapes. This allowed me to further enhance my understanding of this typographic element. I noticed that there is a lot of freedom and opportunities within merging and combining letter shapes.

In the afternoon session, we delved into one of the Gestalt Principles - closure. We first learned about this concept theoretically and then put it into practice by creating various grid compositions.

This session significantly enhanced my comprehension of effective page layout and the elements that contribute to its completeness. In my previous work I mainly used columns as grids. This workshop demonstrated the significance of closing elements and constructing frames to achieve a cohesive and polished page appearance.

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