Monday 30 March 2009



Strine and Fraffly

Strine (Australian)
Yeppet yousha nut.
Ifer gotta natter
speak Fraffly.
Ipey nwirkin
forpa fesser Lauder,
a nair wiker nony
talk Strine.
It kinder getcher,
few Noah timene.
Fried eye car nelpew

Fraffly (posh English)
Well, dibboy,
wimce trair little hodder.
A noshol we tray
wan smore?
Reddeh? Repee tofter me:
The wren in Spen
in mennleh in the
pline.
Ir, fraffly sorreh,
Emmean the wren
is in the plen

Vernacular

Vernacular refers to the native language of a country or a locality. In general linguistics, it is used to describe local languages as opposed to linguas franca, official standards or global languages. It is sometimes applied to nonstandard dialects of a global language.

ver⋅nac⋅u⋅lar  = [ver-nak-yuh-ler, vuh-nak-]

–adjective
1. (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to
literary or learned ).
2. expressed or written in the native language of a place, as literary works: a vernacular poem.
3. using such a language: a vernacular speaker.
4. of or pertaining to such a language.
5. using plain, everyday, ordinary language.
6. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of architectural vernacular.
7. noting or pertaining to the common name for a plant or animal.
8. Obsolete. (of a disease) endemic.


–noun
9. the native speech or language of a place.
10. the language or vocabulary peculiar to a class or profession.
11. a vernacular word or expression.
12. the plain variety of language in everyday use by ordinary people.
13. the common name of an animal or plant as distinguished from its Latin scientific name.
14. a style of architecture exemplifying the commonest techniques, decorative features, and materials of a particular historical period, region, or group of people.
15. any medium or mode of expression that reflects popular taste or indigenous styles.




Phonetics

I am researching how words sound and how people speak differently. Phonics has its own symbols for each off the sounds.



Monday 23 March 2009

Typographical features
There are many elements in the design of a typeface which can contribute to its legibility.

Serif / Sans Serif
"Serifs" are the small finishing strokes on the end of a character. "Sans serif" fonts do not have these small finishing strokes.
Figure 1
Examples of serif and sans serif letters
Point size
Point size is perhaps the element most used to describe the legibility of a type face, but it can also be the most deceptive. Point size is a legacy from the letterpress system, where each letter is held on a small metal block. The point size actually refers to the size of this metal block, and not the actual size of the letter. The letter does not have to take up the full area of the block face, so two fonts with the same nominal point size can quite easily have different actual sizes. (
Bix, 2002)
Figure 2
The difference between point size and actual letter size (Image © Bix, 2002 )
X-height
X-height refers to the height of the lower case "x" in a typeface. It is often a better indicator of the apparent size of a typeface than point size (
Poulton, 1972 ; Bix, 2002 ).
Figure 3
X-height
Counters
Counters are the "negative spaces" inside a character. They are also good indicators of the actual size of the type.
Figure 4
Counters
Ascenders and descenders
Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Descenders are strokes which fall below the baseline of the x-height.

Ron Mueck










The image above is the stages of a developing embryo between the 4th and 8th week. I will use this image to create models of each week. To create the look of these embryos, i will be using a sculpturing compound called 'super sculpey'.

Bodyworlds - book images








4-8 week embryo's

Sunday 1 March 2009

Researching the development of a baby, i have uploaded the weekly stages that i am going to imitate into real life models. The stages of pregnancy i have uploaded, i will recreate and sculpt using modelling wax.

Bodyworlds book has detailed images, as scanned above, from what i will work from to create each detail.