Typography 3: Chinese Typography

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Sarah Burgess

Contents

Ex 01 - 02 Type Structure

Ex 03 - 04 Playing with Materials

Ex 05 Type Finding

Final Design

2Exercise 01: Chinese Calligraphy in Practise

Test 1 - Class Practise

My very first attempt at Chinese Calligraphy. There holds 8 strokesin each character and each strokeis different. So testing this was difficult.

Test 2

Testing the characters of myChinese name.

4Exercise 02: Class Practise: Simplify Letterform Exercise 02: Form & Structure for Chinese Name

For me to begin this practise I had to figure out the letterform of my name, I Started by sketching some tests. Then moved on to the Class exercise.

Reducing Strokes: Sketches

6Exercise 02: Form & Structure of Chinese Name Exercise 02: Form & Structure for Chinese Name

Reducing Strokes: Sketches

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The third character means a different word with so many strokes taken away. I need to replace the bottom right stroke on the second right side of the Character. To make the word readable.

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10Exercise 02: Form & Structure of Idiom Exercise 02: Form & Structure for Chinese Idiom

Looking in to different typesof ways of creating effective typethrough trying use of colour,positive/negative and 3D ideas.

Trying to find a new process of working,possibly 2D/3D techniques

12Exercise 03: Playing With Materials Exercise 03: Playing With Materials

Here we looked in to the likes of nature, water, drugs and tryed to work a little with the sunlight to create shadows.

With this exercise i worked as a team in order to understand the words I was aiming to express through the use of materials I chose. We looked in to natural materials.

Here we tried to create a shadowing effect with the natural sunlight being so bright.

14Exercise 03: Playing With Materials Exercise 03: Playing With Materials

I tested the word tea, drugs and big whilst also trying to create the word “finger” from using my fingers.

Grating wax candles to try make a shodaw effect when photographed, bits of green wax got caught but I think the effect works with the minimal colour.

16Exercise 04: Exploration on Materials & Techniques Exercise 04: Exploration on Materials & Techniques

Testing the idiom, and its english meaning, a flowered person or very beautful people

Lino Testings

Monoprint Testing

Exercise 04: Exploration on Materials & Techniques

Final outcome for the Lino Tests

18Exercise 04: Exploration on Materials & Techniques

Overlapping, collag-ing and layering was a technique I approached with the lino cuts

Retro Style layered print

Exercise 04: Exploration on Materials & Techniques

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Testing of Light & Shadow

Exploring candle light effects

For this test I ued a finishedtoilet roll cardboard. I thenroughly drew chinesecharacters inside the curved cardboard. Then photographed it with a tealight to see if the shadow from the curve of the cardboard couldhave a gentle effect.

Using reflective techniques Paper and candle light - Shadow TestWire & Candle Light Test

22Exercise 04: Exploration on 3D Idiom IdeaExercise 04: Exploration on 3D Idiom Idea

My process for the 3D Idiom >>To begin with I cut out all the seperate strokes. Secondly I then laid them out on the table and organised the structure. Thirdly, I strung them togetherwith thin

The very first part of this process is to organise all the characters in to an order that is readable by the viewer. This was difficult for me as if the strokes are too far apart it can become completely unread-able.

Exercise 04: Exploration on 3D Idiom Idea

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Light Staging Stage >>

Creating shadows

First photographs from the lighting tests

Exercise 04: Exploration on 3D Idiom Idea Exercise 05: Type Finding

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I did a lot of testing of the use of light through my project and these were the last few that were taken that became my favourite.

Exercise 05: Type Finding

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Exercise 05: Type Finding

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Exercise 05: Type Finding

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Exercise 05: Final Design

34Exercise 05: Final Design

This is the first final Poster design for this project, I chose to focus on the shadow ef-fects from the exercise on Playing with Ma-terials. On this poster there also is a poem by Sara Teasdale that relates well with the meaning behind my chosen Idiom. The final three below the main image are my favourite tests from this project.

This is a second poster showing just the final design on its own. I think the shadow effect within the 3D strokes work well and the atmosphere behind my design follows its meaning of my chosen Idiom.