Types unite

• Main Author: Chow, Yean Li
• Other Authors: Desmond Pang Hee Wee
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Visual arts and music::Visual arts; Visual arts and music::Design
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168246
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Languages are a means of communication with their own writing systems and character structures. However, when these visual differences are made more obvious with the inconsistent typographic choices between the English and Chinese language in bilingual posters, it obstructs how information is understood and navigated when these languages are placed together. Anchored on the pillars of education and archival, Types Unite aims to investigate how the English and Chinese writing systems can form a cohesive visual system for designers to be more sensitive while designing bilingual posters for Singapore, a multilingual society. In this project, a literature review on bilingual typography and its related projects were conducted with concurrent fieldwork on Singapore’s bilingual typography landscape. After this, while workshops were being held before a syllabus was proposed for design schools, an online archive documenting Singapore’s bilingual posters was created. Some of these bilingual posters collected were also redesigned. Lastly, a bilingual design guidebook documenting my process and research was also done up.