Course

Graphics Media: Experimental Typography - SDES2407

Faculty: College of Fine Arts

School: School College of Fine Arts

Course Outline: Downloadcourse outline (PDF format)

Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

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Description

SDES2407 Experimental Typography critically examines a range of graphic forms and how media experiences shape discussion, exchange and international understanding. You explore print, screen and online media production and consumption to develop typographic skills in designing and interpreting visual culture. Projects engage with the design of typography in a series of material experiments including traditional letterpress as well as industry software used in the layout of publications for print. This studio focuses on lettering, legibility, and typographic voice as well as grid design, type specification and reading hierarchy introduces experimental approaches to typography and publication design.

Assessment in this course includes studio research tasks and projects that engage with experimental typography and publication design for print.


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