Thursday, July 24, 2003

Special Effects 10:10:05 PM

	Tuesday, July 22, 2003

Today's Assignments 1. Finish your business cards. Be prepared to tell us why the designs are concordant, conflicting or contrasting. 2. In your magazines find different words in various types. Cut them out and reassamble a new design from the pieces. Try and make your design contrasting and bold. 3. Another way of contrasting type is to use color. Trace 3 copies of two words in a design in your magazines. Use three different color combinations to color the words in and be prepared to talk about their relationship and affect. 10:22:57 PM

Bauhaus Constructivism 10:15:10 PM

futurism Plakatstil Cubism Russian Supremacism De Stijl 10:02:29 PM

	Monday, July 21, 2003

DaDa site Art Images Art Nouveau 5:05:44 AM

	Friday, July 18, 2003

For the final project you will design a series of type based messages that use different artistic "styles" to display the same message. From the History of Graphic Design select four styles from different historical periods and create one page poster designs for the same event. Create an event with a fictional theme, date, slogan, etc. There are many different "styles" in the book. The following are just a sampling. Victorian Arts and Crafts Art Nouveau Futurism DADA Expressionism Cubist Pictorial Modernism With a one page description, explain why the poster "fits" with the style and what your design choices were and why. Due the last day of the course. 1:16:07 AM

	Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Next Assignment. Design a system of ten solid shapes, related in design and roughly equal mass, that interact to form a mock alphabet. Try and make the negative (white) space formed by the shapes as interesting as the shapes themselves. This exercise is seen at the typophile site. Read thru this exercise and see his examples. You will be tweaking with your design to create differing "fits" within the following fonts. If any of these fonts are unavailable on your machine, let me know. Bondoni Century Gothic Chancery 9:57:04 PM

A Sense of Type 2:07:13 AM

Different Typefaces have different impacts. 2:01:49 AM

Check out Esperfonto 1:59:29 AM

.. your single concern should be about a good match between the style, semantics, and intended impact of your text and corresponding properties of the typeface it uses. You can't set Shakespeare plays in a sans serif font (even of the "humanist" variety), and fragile Modern serifs are not appropriate for a pushy advertisement message. Ref 1:39:38 AM

What type would you use? And why? To design a children's web site in support of a cartoon show? To design a politics course at a University? To design a financial information document? To design a modern art museum's site and brochure? Investigate online sites of similar contexts and see if your judgements correspond. 1:36:01 AM

	Sunday, July 13, 2003

Good and Bad Typography It is important to recognize poor uses of type as well as good. Looking through your magazines find an example of poor letterspacing, word spacing or leading. Cut the example out. Paste it to a sheet of paper and be prepared to tell why you believe it to be bad type. Gather three examples of display type (headlines and other forms of type used for larger non-text messages). How do the letterforms create the mood of the piece? Paste them on another sheet of paper. Below the forms, describe the context and how the letters achieve their impact. 10:27:45 PM

	Thursday, July 10, 2003

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Next Assignment. Go to this example page. Select two of the examples and do a design that mimics theirs. It doesn't have to be an exact duplicate, but try to get the type and effect to look similiar. 10:23:09 PM

Today's Schedule Jeanette Altman, our resident artist genius, will come in today for a short while and talk a little about photoshop. We will take the quiz. Which involves going to the art gallery listed below and choosing one of the images. Write an analysis of the image, using the terms of visual literacy. Next we will look at some sites on the web and discuss typography as a part of graphic design. 10:09:13 PM

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