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A journalistic approach to words, types, and communication around us.

Table of Contents 4

3 Author’s Note

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6 Out of My Space

10 Let’s Get Nibby

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13 Type Rin Kita

Design Thinking

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17 Sidder

Absolute Treasure

Say It, Now

Misery

Photo by Alberto Cinco Jr.

, Author s Note For my first ever typographical journal, I wanted to showcase my longing interest in Typography. I wanted to share whom I adore (Fozzy and Abbey), to share how the things we often don’t notice are the ones with the most personality (No Parking series), to share my sweet experience in the first ever typographical exhibit in the Philippines, and a personal artwork.

I hope that you will get to learn a little bit from my perspective and that it will inspire you to take an interest in typography as well.

Sid

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OUT OF MY SPACE Same messages different expressions.

“No Parking“ signs are seen mostly everywhere but we don’t really see its own personality.

Photos by Sid Ramos

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There are things we don’t notice much unless we look at it closely. We see it’s imperfections, its personality, and story. As a daily routine of taking a jeep home in the narrow street of Dominga, I noticed that there were a lot of “No Parking“ signs that were painted, printed, stuck, or carved. It interests me that they all say the same thing but shows something different each time. It showed how some took time to present each letter and how some just rigidly painted the letters. It was quite funny since Dominga is very tight and most cars don’t even follow the “No Parking“ notice.

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Absolute Treasure I first found out about Abbey Sy during the Type Kita exhibit. I was amazed at how she was very passionate about lettering that she made it into a business. I’ve admired her kind of style from other artists but hers has just the right amount of elegant and rough at the same time.

Photos on this page are from Abbey Sy’s website.

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(Top left and bottom) Some of Abbey Sy’s works exhibited at Type Kita exhibit. (Top right) Abbey Sy’s retail corner during the exhibit. (Left) One of her lettering artworks. Photo from her website. (Bottom) Works

by Archetype.

Photos on this page by Sid Ramos

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Let ’s get nibby

Photos on this page from Fozzy Castro-Dayrit’s website

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I first found out about Fozzy Castro-Dayrit when I was on Instagram. People were posting beautifully done calligraphy which caught my attention. The photos posted were works done under the supervision of Fozzy during a workshop. That alone got my attention. An age-old type of writing was coming back to life and people loved it.

It intrigued me and that’s when I checked out Fozzy’s profile and was amazed to see more of her calligraphy works written with precision and a little bit of OCD.

I saw Fozzy Castro-Dayrit during the Type Kita Exhibit where some of her works were displayed.

See top and bottom.

During her stay at the exhibit, she taught us tips on how to hold a calligraphy pen, the different types of nibs, and her various techniques.

Photos on this page by Sid Ramos

She showed us her sketchbook which was just an ordinary ruled notebook that you can buy in any bookstore. It was fun to see the insides of her notebook and see how she works.

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Type rin Kita Type Kita a typographical exhibit for Yolanda victims held at 10A Alabama, Quezon City gave artists a new and homey experience last March.

Photos by Sid Ramos

(Above) A pretty and typographical greeting meet guests upon arrival. (Right) Visitors have to pay 50 pesos and procedes goes to Yolanda victims.

(Left and above) Instense papercutting skills glued to glass, shown in a Bisaya dialect.

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(Top left) Superb wooden engraved longboard by Cookie Quevedo. (Above) Rotating “Believe“ piece that represents deception. (Left) Fun cemented flooring.

(Above) Works of Manong Ronald commissioned form guests.(Right) Manong Ronald hard at work.

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Plant and Cactus stamps and sampled artwork.

Painted and silkscreened typography daesigns.

(Above) Displayed is one of Risa Rodil’s works silkscreened on canvas.

(Right) Drinks and a signage done during the exhibit.

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Typography on food, as of writing this work is display in the Craft MNL workshop.

Retail booths comprises of artists’ goodies, stamps, food, dolls, and accessories.

DESIGN Thinking Design Thinking by Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris, was one of the first books on design that I bought for myself. It taught me invaluable industry tips and processes.

This book was really helpful when it came to designing visual communication. It talks a lot about different angles on how we can improve our designs. The pages shown here are pages from the ‘refinement’ section which talks about humor, thinking in words, and shapes.

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Some of the sections also included prototyping and the development of our designs.

Pages from the implementation section included, types of finishes for the materials, the concept of series and continuity, and a glossary section for newbies. This book will satisfy any design enthusiast trying to learn the ropes of designing.

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Sidder The Sidder font was an inspiration from the Nouvelle font, which is used on the cover and as the titles in this journal. I loved the thick and thin lines that it has and how it comes of as formal and casual at the same time.

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AB DEFGH JKLMN PQRST VWXYZ Beside is the first draft of the font on graphing paper and then rendered on Fontstruct. com. There was a lot of tweaking due to Fonstruct’s limited options but I still maintained its overall look.

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The result of the fonts rendered in Fonstruct came out as a bitmap type of serif, which was an interesting result for me, while the numbers were on the thin side.

Say it, now.

As an exercise, we had to communicate the meaning of the words through distorting or adding elements to it. I went a little farther and animated the words which can be found at http://dft.ba/-ten-words.

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I played a lot with the colors and typeface to exude the emotions even if it’s not animated. Seeing the words move according to its meaning is just a bonus for the reader.

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Personal Artwork The quote came from my mom when she left me a note as an encouragement. I decided to sketch it out and render it in Adobe Photoshop.

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