Typography has the focal point of today and this is something I have really enjoyed learning about. With the A6 assignment I have been able to take the time and the study the fonts of Erik Spiekermann, as this is the typographer I will be presenting about, and look at the level of skill that is required to create a typeface.
After reading interviews he has done and reading his blog you can see that typography is his passion and it is almost an obsession.
“I read everything, everywhere. I cannot order a meal unless I have identified the font on the menu – drives everybody crazy – and I constantly comment on highway signs, traffic signs and transit signs.” Erik Spiekermann, Design Within ReachThe A5 assignment brings a completely different challenge especially when it comes to testing the website in multiple browsers. Using Dreamweaver and the layout tables can also cause problems in it's self especially as I haven't used them for a few years.
With the problems of tables I am constantly wanting to layout the website using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Hopefully the next website I create in college will be using CSS for both the layout and the formatting of text. With the use of CSS you have much more control but this can ultimately cause more problems in terms of cross browser support and validation.
In seminar groups today we talked about the A1 assignment and this is something I need to work on and really think about how all aspects of my work are related to this assignment. I think that due to the fact that the assignment is on going through the entire course I have always given A2, A3 and A4 preference over it and this is something I cannot afford to do.
My targets for next week are:
- Create draft version of presentation ready for seminar groups
- Complete website template in Dreamweaver (Ensuring spellings are correct, valid CSS and XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language) 1.0 Strict)
- Start creating pages of website using template
- Collect more examples of inspirational artwork
- Review the A1 assignment in more detail and how it applies to my work
2 comments:
Its good to see that you have really taken the time to study your typographer and ive also found some interesting things out about Erik Spiekermann in his interveiws.
A really interesting and insightful quotation James.
I think passion for your subject is something that can set you apart from others in the same field. Although an awareness of the difference between passion and obsession is also key!
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