I received my first ever university project this week: A typography project. This is the first project out of five. My initial reaction was ‘OMG OMG OMG – wait. Let me read the brief first’ A very bad habit of mine; Freaking out and automatically going into panic mode before I have even had a chance to understand what is being asked of me.
I do feel as if I’m at a slight disadvantage to others on my course as unlike most of them, I haven’t done a diploma in Graphic Design nor have I done a foundation course (main reason being as I was certain about what route I wanted to take. I suppose that it would have been a lot better if I had gained some more experience beforehand but it’s a bit too late for that now.
(You have probably already realized this from my first post) that I had taken 3 A levels, one of them being Art and despite briefly looking into typography artists such as David Carson and Stefan Sagmeister for one of my projects, I was never really given the option of thoroughly exploring the typography concept. But this project seemed to be the perfect opportunity for me to do just that.
When someone first mentions typography, you automatically assume that it has something to do with type and text but as I learnt, it really is so much more! I highlighted, re-phrased and re-read the brief until I fully understood it. The first problem that I faced was the whole ‘Where to begin’. I’m the sort of person who usually has a number of ideas to start off with but rather than experimenting and exploring these ideas further, I tend to be quite selective and pick and choose the idea that I think would be most suitable… Not good!
I’m halfway through the week and I have to admit that I am getting quite irritated at having to research everything and experiment before going on to produce the final. Bad memories of Art A level
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