Typography In London - Revision history

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Eawilson: /* Emily's Experience */

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‎Emily's Experience

Osgibbs: /* Olivia's Experience */

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‎Olivia's Experience

Eawilson at 21:37, 19 June 2017

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Osgibbs: /* Olivia's Experience */

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‎Olivia's Experience

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‎Olivia's Experience

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 Our objective was to explore the different typography in London and its history. We will go through defining what typography is with a focus on calligraphy. We also talk about the history of typography and how it transformed the London underground, including the artists who brought it here. We end with our deliverable of Keeping Note; our calligraphy attempts of capturing our observations in different London locations. Our background in humanities includes modern art class along with philosophy and religion. We walked away with a new knowledge of typography and the big role it plays in London.
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 Keeping the notebook was an interesting experience, as it really had me paying very close attention to my surroundings all the time. Not only did it allow me to notice my surroundings more but it also allowed me to continue to improve my calligraphy. I practiced writing my name at least one hundred times before I finally wrote it down on the first page of my notebook, and with the gold ink it was a great start to this project. My next page says London HUA and I was so excited with how my first page had turned out that my writing became a little slanted. I think it was important though that there was an imperfection at the very start of the notebook, otherwise the mistakes I made later on would have been more difficult to deal with. This showed me that calligraphy is not easy and you will make mistakes. One common occurrence was that sometimes I would interchange the cursive alphabet that we learned in elementary school, which looks okay but it was not technically correct. Another mistake I would sometimes make would be spelling, even on simple words, I got into the flow of the nib on the paper and not having to think about the next letter that I would write the wrong one. Some other observations made form this project were that some words just do not look right in calligraphy. We were sitting eating lunch one day by the Thames and there was a group of people working out who were on their lunch break. I had written down a ton of quotes from them that were very funny but included a lot of curse words. When I went to write these quotes down they just did not look like they belonged in such delicate writing. This was a perfect example of typography, and how certain words need a different font in order to convey it's meaning. In the end this project was a great way to put our background down onto a piece of paper, and get to experience typography.
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	This project has forced me to stop and really observe and appreciate what is around me. From taking time to sit in parks, by the water, at shows or even on transportation I had actively listened to the conversations around me. I have learned more about the people of London than I thought I would which makes it really interesting. And having to write all the words, observations and quotes in calligraphy has taught me hands on the power of typography. For example, I wrote the word ‘Screech’ since it was the sound the train made as it rounded the corner, but writing it in a delegate curvy line felt wrong. The word screech, to me, made me think it should be in bold or times new roman not an elegant font. <br><br>		This project has forced me to stop and really observe and appreciate what is around me. From taking time to sit in parks, by the water, at shows or even on transportation I had actively listened to the conversations around me. I have learned more about the people of London than I thought I would which makes it really interesting. And having to write all the words, observations and quotes in calligraphy has taught me hands on the power of typography. For example, I wrote the word ‘Screech’ since it was the sound the train made as it rounded the corner, but writing it in a delegate curvy line felt wrong. The word screech, to me, made me think it should be in bold or times new roman not an elegant font. <br><br>
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		+	Over the course of the few weeks I was able to see my own typography start to take place as I began to adapt Gabb's own alphabet to my liking. This is what makes typography unique and diverse. For me it can be seen I prefer to write smaller and thinner, which means I barely hold any pressure on the quill both on the up and down stroke. Also I emphasized the lead in and end tails, the curly lines before and after each letter. And with the longer led in lines my letters are more spaced out, creating a softer read as the letters are spread out in a flow and not crammed together. All these little features took me forever to complete during the first few days of practicing, but now I don't have to think twice about how the letters connect or what the letter shape is. I know my own alphabet and can write a lot quicker, producing journal pages more quickly too. <br><br>

	Overall I have really enjoyed this project, learning how to analyze and now appreciate all that is around me- WORDS!- and learning a new skill which I hope to keep up with and continue to improve. I am excited to get home to create more signs and letter headings for gifts and decoration, no more Etsy shopping when I have the knowledge, materials and skills to do it myself! <br><br>		Overall I have really enjoyed this project, learning how to analyze and now appreciate all that is around me- WORDS!- and learning a new skill which I hope to keep up with and continue to improve. I am excited to get home to create more signs and letter headings for gifts and decoration, no more Etsy shopping when I have the knowledge, materials and skills to do it myself! <br><br>

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-After reading and learning all about typography we wanted to get a hands on experience so we went to a Modern Calligraphy class hosted by Alice Gabb. Here we learned how to do her modern calligraphy alphabet, and how to correctly hold the quill. Holding the quill was difficult at first as you hold it straight up to where as a pencil is titled. Also you have to be very careful with the strokes you make sing the nib, down strokes use more pressure than upstrokes. The difference in the pressure of the strokes are what makes it modern calligraphy. It took a lot of practice but after the class we felt comfortable enough to take on a project of writing down our observations in a notebook, from the different places we have been. By doing this it allowed us to continue to practice our calligraphy skills that we had just learned.
+After reading and learning all about typography we wanted to get a hands on experience so we went to a Modern Calligraphy class hosted by Alice Gabb. Here we learned how to do her modern calligraphy alphabet, and how to correctly hold the quill. Holding the quill was difficult at first as you hold it straight up to where as a pencil is titled. Also you have to be very careful with the strokes you make sing the nib, down strokes use more pressure than upstrokes. The difference in the pressure of the strokes are what makes it modern calligraphy. This was the first time I had ever tried calligraphy so it was a learning process. In order for her to be able to tell if we were writing correctly we had to copy her alphabet. When we copied her alphabet it allowed her to see where we were making mistakes. Her alphabet is very whimsical, with long leading lines and very light ends. I could copy her alphabet, but I was not comfortable with the long leading lines of her work.  It took a lot of practice but after the class we felt comfortable enough to take on a project of writing down our observations in a notebook, from the different places we have been. By doing this it allowed us to continue to practice our calligraphy skills that we had just learned. Once I learned how to shape all of the letters, I no longer needed the alphabet in front of me at all times to write, so I stopped looking at it. I noticed a change in my hand writing, from simply copying her to creating my own. My calligraphy was still modern with light upstrokes and pressure on the down strokes, but i slowly got rid of the long leading lines, and have more sharp, noticeable ending curves on certain letters. In our background I talked about how any one can copy a handwriting, just like we do in elementary school, and how calligraphy used to be that way until students were told to question what they had been told. I did just that, I questioned the need for long leading lines, as it just made the letters more difficult to connect, and I questioned the ending curves as they were so small they were not noticeable. From there I created my own font, and it was not even intentional, it was just me subconsciously questioning what I had been taught. You can see an example of this change in the gallery.
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 Keeping the notebook was an interesting experience, as it really had me paying very close attention to my surroundings all the time. Not only did it allow me to notice my surroundings more but it also allowed me to continue to improve my calligraphy. I practiced writing my name at least one hundred times before I finally wrote it down on the first page of my notebook, and with the gold ink it was a great start to this project. My next page says London HUA and I was so excited with how my first page had turned out that my writing became a little slanted. I think it was important though that there was an imperfection at the very start of the notebook, otherwise the mistakes I made later on would have been more difficult to deal with. This showed me that calligraphy is not easy and you will make mistakes. One common occurrence was that sometimes I would interchange the cursive alphabet that we learned in elementary school, which looks okay but it was not technically correct. Another mistake I would sometimes make would be spelling, even on simple words, I got into the flow of the nib on the paper and not having to think about the next letter that I would write the wrong one. Some other observations made form this project were that some words just do not look right in calligraphy. We were sitting eating lunch one day by the Thames and there was a group of people working out who were on their lunch break. I had written down a ton of quotes from them that were very funny but included a lot of curse words. When I went to write these quotes down they just did not look like they belonged in such delicate writing. This was a perfect example of typography, and how certain words need a different font in order to convey it's meaning. In the end this project was a great way to put our background down onto a piece of paper, and get to experience typography.

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 Overall I have really enjoyed this project, learning how to analyze and now appreciate all that is around me- WORDS!- and learning a new skill which I hope to keep up with and continue to improve. I am excited to get home to create more signs and letter headings for gifts and decoration, no more Etsy shopping when I have the knowledge, materials and skills to do it myself! <br><br>
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 file:OGworkshopsetup.jpg|Workshop Set Up
 file:OGwriting1stday.jpg|Workshop Practice In Progress