I'd say this course has broadened my understanding of typography and publication design mainly through the online lectures. Overall I've found them to be informative, easy to read and understand through its somewhat casual tone of voice. They have covered a nice broad range of topics within publication and typography, and have been a nice balance of theory, technical aspects, society and trend analysis. I must admit though, Lecture 7 on page layout (particularly the Golden Mean etc) I found a bit hard to understand in terms of how exactly they were suggesting to divide the page and would have liked some further explanation to be able to actually implement the methods described. Similarly, Lecture 8 on setting up files for printing with terms such as 'RIP', 'lossy' and 'loss-less', which until then I either hadn't heard before/didn't understand.
The projects themselves have also been quite eye-opening, however I think this has mainly come from hindsight, realising what would have been a better way(s) to approach the brief and project. For instance, the letterpress project – only after completing the project did I probably begin to understand the limitations of the letterpress, what compositions work and look best, and the best ways to physically set up the characters within the frame. At present I'm also finding the class-based publication project to be quite insightful. Predominantly in terms of what it's like to work on the one project as part of a large team sub-divided into smaller teams, the challenges that are faced in decision-making, and how the smaller teams tend to interact with each other. I'd say in both of these projects, due to the method and set-up involved, we will probably learn the most through the process itself.
Katherine (z3235050)
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