A6 - Revert to Type

Typography…simple…at least that’s what I thought before starting this Unit. I was surprised at the depth that you can go into typography. When we first had our lecture on this topic, I can honestly say that I was so naive about what it entailed. I seriously thought that it was, as simple as putting your uppercase here and your full stops there. And learning what fonts are appropriate for certain tasks. But during the first lecture I realised how much I had to learn. You could go on learning typography everyday, it’s such a deep topic. And with many areas also, for example font and letter name typography, Newspaper typography, design typography and I’m sure there is many more to add.

During the A6 assignment I learnt so much about the design world, that is considered to be standard practise concerning such skills as type, and also I believe that I have gained the experience short it may be, but the experience of work that you could receive at a work place the Pressure work. This coming with the timed, surprise assignments. It was certainly a different way for us to work, walking into a room not knowing whether you would be given a task to complete and how long you would be allocated to do the task, it gave me a feeling of anticipation and excitement. And I believe that in each of the tasks I performed as well as I could have done, in respect to the pressure, and the skills I had then. I feel I would possibly complete the same tasks again in much quicker time, and to a possibly higher standard, but none the less I am extremely happy with the work that I have produced.

Running along side these surprise tasks the preparation for the presentations had to be completed, including research slide shows, hand outs and on top of this learning the presentation, but although my first reaction was a little fear at doing another presentation, when I fought it through I realised that because of the time allocated to do this task, there was more than enough time to learn the presentation and there couldn’t be bad nerves on the day if I knew the slide show well enough, and I found that the more I worked on creating the slides and hand outs, I was inadvertently learning the presentation without actually trying, which was a major plus come the deadline day, and the days before, as I didn’t have to knuckle down so much and try to cram it all in.

Overall this assignment has been impressive, it kept me interested with the surprise assignments, and I enjoyed completing them. I believe it was a healthy mix between the two (presentation and Timed assignments) and it didn’t call for drastic time planning amendments as there was plenty of time to complete both. But I will say that although I enjoyed the whole journey to the deadline, come deadline day it gave a shock ending to a smooth ride. By this however I do not mean that the presentation went bad, because I felt it was pretty good, I was happy with my performance however I believe I should have done better with a few questions and again surprise element added, but I believe I should have answered more questions correctly than I did, but I feel I answered enough to show that I do have an understanding of typography.

I thought that the final act of the deadline day was the shock ending, I knew we would have a tough task given to us, but I really did find it tough. Not just in the topic, but the time that the tasks had to be completed in, to finish in that space of time you must really be organised and very well prepared, I unfortunately did not finish this task, so I’m not optimistic about how my grade will fair. As obviously a failed task is a failed assignment. But all I can do is wait and see how i did, and look forwards to starting the new assignment.