The History of Design and Type Setting
CRYSTAL JOBE
TYPOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO
FALL 2024 - NSU DAVIE
Assignment 1: Symbolic Meaning
Details:
Create a chain of symbols are transferring a personal message. Do not use letters or already existing symbols, we need to see how creative you can be to create original artwork. Think of it as an international communication tool, people can read it without special language skills. If it helps, start ideation on paper in sketchbook.
For this assignment, I wanted to create two symbols that represent hobbies that I like and one symbol to represent the tattoo that I have. The first symbol I made is a person in a book sitting since reading is one of my favorite hobbies. The second symbol is an abstract camera since I love photography. I didn’t want it to be obvious, so I made half of the lines wavy. For the last symbol, I have moon tattoos and have always found melting shapes to be pretty, so I wanted it to look at dropped down as possible while still having its shape.
Assignment 2: Hieroglyph Writing Exercise
Details:
Combine a number of symbols to create a short story or message. symbols to use:
I wanted my story to have more than five symbols in it, so I chose 8 as the perfect number. When deciding on the message I wanted to make a chose the symbols that I found interesting and then turned them into a sentence. When it came to the background, I wanted it to look like it was on a wall in Egypt. For the border I looked up Egyptian patterns and based the border on them.
For this Assignment, I chose the gothic art theme and chose the font Cattedrale. For the words I chose Gargoyle since that is usually what I think of when I remember the gothic art and architecture era. For the picture I choose to hand draw a Gargoyle in Photoshop and then export it was a Jpeg into Illustrator. I then put them all together on the page and made a border using some of the pieces from the font.
