"story book" assignment deadlines:

full comp of "story book" project printed for in class crit

and posted on your blog

including "story" text, imagery, typography, infographic, your font design

due next week, mon 13th, wed 15th

NO EXCEPTIONS:

following week, mon 20th, wed 22nd, complete comp due

small tweaks can be made until the 27th and 29th

FINAL, FINAL due mon 27th, wed 29th in both print and online forms

assignment nine (final assignment for the semester)

assignment eight, due 11.28, 11.30

november 28 assignment due:

next week's assignment, for november 28, is TYPE IN MOTION

any format, 3 seconds or more

must move!!

have a great thanksgiving

HOW TO CREATE A FONT

I LOVE TYPOGTAPHY

http://ilovetypography.com/2007/10/22/so-you-want-to-create-a-font-part-1/

syllabus

assignment five

4th Assignment

Assignment 3

Assignment 2

fontscape.com
typographytimeline.com
www.youworkforthem.com

Assignment 1: Ten responses to ten different articles from The New York Times

Don't forget to post your work on your blog AND bring your work printed to your class.

Getting Your Portfolio Ready

Its portfolio time, for next class lets make sure we:

1) choose projects you want to include in your junior portfolio

including pieces from courses, mine or others, internships, jobs, last year's work you'd like to revise, etc

2) lay then out in an indesign doc.
nothing fancy for this week.
just choose the pieces and lay them in.

3) export to a pdf.

4) print in b&w to size

5) paste back to back in the order you think you'd like to present

6) trim to size.

7) bring to class

-see you then.

Spring Semester Calendar

Below is the calendar for Spring Semester, and expectations for the class.

Click on it to see the calendar in a larger size.

Keep in mind, only two months left!

SURVEY

Homework Assignment for this week.

create a survey for an information graphic about your topic.

design and print your survey.

bring enough for everyone + to fill out.

make sure you think hard about how you formulate the questions so that they can be charted.

ie. open ended questions are difficult to chart.

but, you don't want to direct folks too much or you skew the data.

so, create questions that are as objective as possible, but directed according to your needs.

at least 10-15 questions.

design a questionnaire in the format of your topic thus far.

if you choose to use survey monkey, that's fine, but also print out and bring to class so that your classmates can fill out your survey.

any questions?

Assignment 5

Next week's assignments (10/12):

1) 4 (18"x24") posters, related to your topic and must be B&W.
Use typography to
a) inform,
b) create interest,
c) educate,
d) advertise or
e) make folks notice your topic.
Choose one objective, not all of the above.
Whatever is most appropriate to your topic.
Be inventive.
*typography only*

2) An invite to an event, also related to your topic.

3) Bring to class a list of fonts used for each piece on an 8x10 sheet of paper please.

4) Keep in mind that each piece of work should fall into either an a, b or c layout.

a

b

c

5) The lessons that gen covers gives you an idea of what a client is to expect from you, the designer. As a reminder, the list so far has been about:
-topic
-typography
-grid
-color palette
-icon or symbol for your topic
-swipe

Assignment 4

Here is your assignment from class on 10/01

1) Refine your 16 pages signature / type specimen book
2) Narrow down your font choices to 3 or 4 (don't forget text fonts)
3) Develop color swatches through image swipes.
Begin to think about the integration and importance of color with your topic
4) Work towards topic using the lessons learned in class (i.e. grid, hierarchy etc)
5) Have it bound and ready to go.
6) POST TO YOUR BLOG
** Don't post pdfs***

Assignment for 9/28

Next Week's Assignment:

1) Read the first two chapters of Ellen Lupton's Thinking with Type ("Letter" and "Text")

2) Rework your type book (It must be a 16-page signature book).

3) Begin to integrate the images used in your Swatches Book in any manner you find appropriate for your topic.

Keep in my mind the concepts that were discussed in class. (i.e. grid)

Also keep in my mind that 'book' does not have to be taken literally.

Browse through blogs linked to Typobloger for examples.

Due 9.23: Type specimen book

Type specimen book (16-page signature):

1) Pick 12 typefaces:
3 serif display
3 sans serif display
3 serif text
3 sans serif text

2) Design a David Berlow style type specimen book. Print to size,bound and bring to class. Here is the link to the David Berlow specimen pdf.

*DO NOT UPLOAD ALL THE FONTS ON THE LIBRARY TO YOUR COMPUTER. Store them and only upload those you need. Otherwise, you will crash your hard drives.

First Assignment: 24 page swipe book

For swipe book:

• Pick a topic that interests you and that's not too broad. Write a paragraph describing it. Pick a target audience that's preferably close to yours.
• Find sample images, a color palate and typography related to the topic. Print out and bind swipe book.
• Create blog
• Post it all to your blog

Deadline: 9.17 (if you didn't bring it to class, bring it next week)