In this exercise I need to create a experimental typographic layout for Jules Verne’s ​20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The text to be included was the following passage: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated…

In this exercise I was asked to look at grids in more practical terms by analysing some books then recreating and further developing the grids I identify. I have started this exercise as suggested; by using tracing paper to draw up the grid that I could see in my chosen book, but I found this…

The golden ratio is a special ratio that has been used in art and architecture for hundreds of years. It is a ratio that cannot be expressed in a rational number and this number is described in mathematics as Phi (Φ ). What makes this number so incredible is that if we use this to create…

In this exercise I was asked to look at some fonts used in a range of literature such as magazines and flyers and categorise them into broad categories. I started by writing out quite a few fonts on my computer and classifying them as per the instructions from the exercise. I found this somewhat difficult…