Text Compositions with restricted font parameters

This assignment is aimed at learning to create a typographic composition based on the content. The importance of content over form is a very important factor in learning typography. After learning all the finer aspects of typesetting like letterspace, word space, allignments, para space, indents, hyphen, widow, orphan, river, bubble etc, the students are given a simple set of data for text composition. The hirearchy and order of information is studied before starting the typographic explorations. Only Univers font is used in all the compositions and later, the point size is also restricted. The interesting observation in this assignment is that the restrictions actually helped the students to concentrate on the content and create compositions that do justice to the content rather than work only towards beauty of a composition.

by Kailash Gharat

by Divya Bharadwaj

by Ashok Maharaj

by Shweta Kamble

by Srinivas Godala

by Chinmay Bhave

by Tarun Arya

by Vishnupriya Kaulgud

Expressive Typography

The task is to express the meaning of a word through letter forms. Experiments with typesetting parameters can be tried out: Changes in Orientation, Size, Position, Style, Weight, Width, Space, Grey values etc. Attempt is to experiment with syntactic devices rather than expressing through font based features.   

'Escalator' by Divya Bharadwaj

'Reconstruction' by Reshal Shah

'Communication' by Vishnupriya Kaulgud

'Explosion' by Srinivas Godala

'Calculate' by Tarun Arya

'Stock Exchange' by Kailash Gharat

'Alcohol' by Sunny Kolekar

'Celebration' by Shweta Kamble

Exploration of Weight and Widths

Create one letter form in an Indian Language of your choice and create four variations in weight and width. Weight is the amount of flesh you add to a spine or bone. It varies from Extra thin, Hairline, to Regular to Bold, Extra bold and Extra Black. Width is the variation within a font family which denotes the total width taken by each letter – It ranges from Extra Condensed or Compressed to Regular to Expanded or Extended.

Divya Bhardwaj

Ashok Mahraj

Reshal Shah

Tarun Arya

Shweta Kamble

Vishnupriya Kaulgud

Srinivas Godala

Composition with Letterforms

Create a composition by using only one letter. ie. Letter 'A' Bodoni. You can repeat, explore different sizes, orientation, overlap, rotation, intersection, cropping patterns, textures, progression, tessellation, figure & ground etc.

Theme: Balance.

Ashok Maharaj

Divya Bharadwaj

Kailash Gharat

Chinmay Bhave

Reshal Shah

Shweta Kamble

Sunny Kolekar

Srinivas Godala

Tarun Arya

Vishnupriya Kaulgud

Photography from Nature

Seeing the unseen. 

This assignments aims at improving the students' ability to observe and see the unseen in the world around us. The final output is a set of photographs of objects in nature which has visual similarities with letter forms. 

Compare Devanagari letters of your name with similar objects in nature, explore both positive and negative spaces.

Kailash Gharat

Ashok Maharaj

Srinivas Godala

Reshal Shah

Divya Bharadwaj

Shweta Kamble

Sunny Kolekar

Vishnupriya Kaulgud

3D Letter forms - Installation

Typographic installation

The first letter of student's name in native language is taken for this assignment. The aim is to explore the three dimensional quality of letter forms and then use available objects and material to create an interesting installation which reflects a particular thought associated with a name and a theme.

Letter "A" (Telugu)  by Ashok Maharaj

Letter "Vi" (Kannada) by Vishnupriya Kaulgud

Letter "Chi" (Devnagari) by Chinmay Bhave

Letter "Sa" (Devnagari) by Sunny Kolekar

Letter "Ka" (Devnagari) by Kailash Gharat

Letter "Sha" (Devnagari) by Shweta Kamble

Letter "Sa" (Devnagari) by Sonal Gupta

Letter "Ta" (Devnagari) By Tarun Arya

Letter "Shri" (Telugu) by Srinivas Godala 

Letter "Da" (Devnagari) By Divya Bharadwaj)