I have currently been revising for my exams. I only have two, so its not too bad really, but my exam yesterday was such a disaster. The module is just a disgrace - the teachers don't know what they're meant to be teaching us, there is absolutely no structure and their lecture notes don't make grammatical sense. They have never taught this module before and apparently are discontinuing for next year, due to it's awfulness.
However, although the module was atrocious I did learn a lot about typography (which unfortunately never came up in the exam), and it's influence within art and design.
One person who stuck out in particular was Jenny Holzer, whose means of art is through typography. Holzer places her art into situations for everyone to see, making a clear political standpoint and feeling against society. She displays her work publicly, projecting LED writings onto a building. The building is essentially her canvas. A lot of her work explores and attempts to subvert electronic advertising by adapting it to their means.
This is from her earlier work in the 70s:
And this is her more recent work, which has become much more technically advanced:
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