Kiran Hwang Kyezen (0349180)

 7/4/2023 - 19/5/2023 (Week 1 - Week 7) Kiran Hwang Kyezen / 0349180 Illustration and Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media  Task 1 / Exercises LECTURES Week 1 - Introduction For the first week, Mr. Hafiz introduced us to the module as well as a briefing on what is expected as the weeks progress.  We were introduced to Adobe Illustrator and its benefits such as how its focus is vector art, which its main benefit is to maintain image quality no matter the distortion. However, due to the software not being distributed yet at the time, we had difficulties in the practical lesson. Instead, we were also tasked with trying out the "Bézier game" which is intended to help newcomers practice using the pen tool. We were also taught several features of Adobe Illustrator such as workspaces, grouping, and several tools shown in the toolbar. After explaining the features, we were tasked to trace out vormator sha

4/4/2023 - 2/5/2023 (Week 1 - Week 5) Kiran Hwang Kyezen / 0349180 Typography / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media  Task 1 / Exercises LECTURES Lecture 1 - Development Timeline 1000 B.C.E - Phoenician Uppercase forms were a simple combination of straight lines and pieces of circles Text was written from right to left 900 B.C.E - Greek The Greeks wrote alternating between right to left, and vice versa 100 B.C.E - Roman Estruscan carvers developed strokes as they painted. This later on became referred to as "serifs" 3rd to 10th Century C.E Square capitals - Composed of serifs used to finish off main strokes Rustic capitals - Compressed version of square capitals. This took less space on parchments but were harder to read in exchange Lowercase letterforms - Developed due to simplification of square and r