Fri, 25 Jul 2003 05:10:05 GMT

Special Effects

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:22:57 GMT

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.

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:15:10 GMT

Bauhaus
Constructivism

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:02:29 GMT

futurism
Plakatstil
Cubism
Russian Supremacism
De Stijl

Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:05:44 GMT

DaDa site
Art Images
Art Nouveau

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:16:07 GMT

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.

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 04:57:04 GMT

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

Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:07:13 GMT

A Sense of Type

Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:01:49 GMT

Different Typefaces have different impacts.

Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:59:29 GMT

Check out Esperfonto

Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:39:38 GMT

.. 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

Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:36:01 GMT
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.

Mon, 14 Jul 2003 05:27:45 GMT
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.

Typography and the History of Design