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Pan Lie Wei
Contents
About this book 1
Composition 2
Letterforms 4
Letterforms and words 11
Letterforms, words and text with graphic elements 15
Texture and positive / negative 21
Pan, Lie Wei
Class: Graphic Design
Advisor: Hsu, Tzu-Ching
About this book
Concept
Composition is the organization or grouping of the different parts of a work
of art so as to achieve a unified whole.
Although typographic composition utilizes the same basic compositional
concepts that are part of all visual arts, there are unique ways that typography
relates to each of these concepts. By forming relationships between the
elements, and incorporating visual concepts in abstract ways, a new and more
open relationship with typography is achieved.
Shown on the following pages, the exploration of typographic composition
started with simple elements--three letterforms--and became a process of
identifying abstract concepts as they became visualized. Additional elements
were added each week, and new relationships evolved as we explored
positive/negative and texture image use.
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Composition
T1-Comp1
Letterforms
These compositions feature three letters
from the alphabet, set in any of the foll-
owing typefaces : Garamond, Times
Roman, Century, Baskerville and/or
Bodoni. By using size, scale, spacial
relationships, bleeds and positioning as
the variables, I created six compositions
using only the three letterforms. The
final compositions are 15cm x 15cm(st-
andard format throughout).
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T1-Comp2
Letterforms and words
Keeping the three letters from the previous assignm-
ent, I have now included three words. The words do
not have to have any particular meaning or association
with each other. Each letter and word is set in one of
the following typefaces: Garamond, Times Roman,
Century, and/or Bodoni. Using only the three letters
and three words, I created the following compositions.
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T1-Comp3
Letterforms, words
and text with graphic elements
Starting with the same three letters and three
words from the previous assignments, I am n-
ow adding some text and a graphic element. I
am setting the text in one of the approved
typefaces from before, adjusting the leading,
column width, type size , etc. to achieve
different results. As abstract compositions, it
is not necessary that the text or other typogr-
aphic elements be readable.
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T1-Comp4
Texture and positive / negative
Positive/negative is the relationship between figure
and ground. Texture is the ability to render type in
ways other than just hard edge black and white.
Combining these two allows me to define type in
unusual and unique ways-challenging me to see it
differently. Starting with the same three letters, th-
ree words and text used in the last assignments, I
incorporated positive/negative and texture as major
design components.
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Pan Lie Wei