"Marked" Book Cover

"Marked" - 3 Spreads

Marked

Change of plans and the un-sureness of Dhampir having 3 points of view, I have changed my book to Marked.

Dhampir

This is the book I'm going to do :).  It's fun, exciting, and fills all the project requirements.

Dictionary Book Cover

I pretty much enjoyed this :).  It was a lot of fun.

Words and Definitions - Final

I wanted to redo my definitions project.  I wanted to make them feel more original, cutesy, and overall have more unity.  I feel I succeeded in doing so :).  Any suggestions are welcome.

Words and Definitions - #3

Words and Definitions

constraints:

use 1 of 5 traditional typeface classifications

create a two page spread on a landscape legal page that defines a word both verbally and through a visual reinforcement of meaning

use two typefaces on your page

read the following page:

http://www.pixelcola.net/typography/typ-1.jpg

(We will do this project twice, once with a classic typeface and once with a novelty font)

Art Gallery Visit

Scott Campbell

Echo Visions

(2010)

Screen Print

I was attracted to this piece because of the amazing colors and how they worked together.  After my initial observance of the piece, I then appreciated the repetition of the image and the image that appears behind the first.  The multiple images worked together to create a really interesting and evoking piece.  I could look at this piece for awhile just because it is so visually captivating and interesting.

Scott Campbell

The National

(2010)

Screen Print

Transformed from a piece of art into a poster is really interesting.  It still creates the same feel to it, and I actually do not mind the blue text at the top of the poster. I personally would have done black or something of that nature, but blue really does work.  Everything still ties together, and the original image is not lost, but strengths and represents the poster well, I think.

Nip / Tuck

Albert Exergian

Admittedly, I did not grasp the concept of this at first.  It took a few giggles in the gallery to finally see what this poster was about.  It is so abstract, simple, yet so representative and obvious.  I love the combination of all these elements to create such a fun and unique poster.  It is one of my favourites of the  gallery as such :).

CD Booklet Project

Project: Type On Disc (Booklet) Rough

Create a booklet for a CD containing both the True Type and Open Type (.TTF and OTF.) versions of a typeface.

This booklet should display a minimum of three members of the type family (roman, italic, and bold) and give background information on both the typeface designer and the typeface itself, situating the importance of the typeface and typographer historically.

There should be a minimum of 200 words of historical information.

You may use black, white, and two colors.

The alphabet must be represented in upper and lowercase its entirety in roman, italic, and bold.

There is not a size (and consequently not a page number) specification for the booklet, other than that it must hold a CD. That gives us a minimum size specification of 4.75"

One page must contain a letter whose height (either cap-height or x-height, depending on the case) is 4.75".

There should be an image of the original typeface.


BLACKLETTER:
Fraktur
Cloister Black
Goudy Text

OLDSTYLE:
Bembo
Caslon
Dante
Garamond
Janson
Jenson
Palatino

TRANSITIONAL:
Baskerville
Bulmer
Georgia
Joanna
Perpetua
Times Roman

MODERN:
Bell
Bodoni
Caledonia
Didot
Modern No. 20
Torino
Walbaum

EGYPTIAN, SLAB SERIF, or SQUARE SERIF:
Century
Clarendon
Lubalin Graph
Memphis
Rockwell
Serifa

SANS SERIF:
Akzidenz Grotesk
Grotesque
Gill Sans
Franklin Gothic
Frutiger
Futura
Helvetica
Meta
News Gothic
Optima
Syntax
Trade Gothic
Univers

Outside: 

Inside:

Oogle Monster:

Project 2: Spread Using Grid

Spread using Grid:

Create a four page article on two double page spreads using the text and images provided by Designing with Type online here.
(We will not be using the Designing with Type online grid, rather we will be creating our own grids to be used for our pages. (One page grid will be used for all for pages.)

Each page is 8" x 8" and should be printed on a single 8.5x11 sheet.
Each double page spread should be posted in the glass cases outside the lab, one spread above the other by 8am February 15th. Include text type, display type, heads, subheads, captions, and folios.

Please refer to the following examples from Designing with Typeonline:
Creating Emphasis
Grids

For some reason, InDesign CS5 was giving me problems printing and ensuring that the documents were the right size.  For the first spread, I had to use a tabloid setting instead of the actual 16x8 requirement.  It kept wanting to use pts instead of inches.

Early Letterform Project

Project 1: Early Letterform

Assignment:

Select a letter from the Phoenician or Greek alphabet, research the letter, and write approximately 100 words.

Create four two-color designs, each distinctively different, using black and red as shown in the examples. Incorporate your copy into each design. In the first design make the symbol the most prominent element. In the second make the display type the most prominent element. In the third make the text type the most prominent element. All design elements should be two-dimensional. In the final comp make the symbol the most prominent element again.

Each design should be 8" x 8".

It is your choice which of the colors, red, black, or white is used for the page, for the symbol, for the text and display type.

For your text and display type, use one of the 5 typefaces we have been working with thus far:

Garamond

Baskerville

Didot

Century Schoolbook

Helvetica

Consider the following issues:

Colors and textures created through letter, word, and line spacing.

Legibility based upon tracking and leading.

Shape created by counterform and the influence on the perception of the composition.

These will be among the topics discussed in critique.

The Original Project Brief>>>

EXAMPLES:

The Cooper Union >>>

Hong-ik University >>>

Type Classifications Exercise

TYPE CLASSIFICATION

FIVE CLASSIC TYPEFACES and characteristics

Type Classification Exercises (same basic layout for all five typefaces)

Type Arrangements Exercise

TYPE ARRANGEMENTS

Rearrange the paragraphs you have created for the Five Classic Typefaces exercises to meet the following specifications:

Garamond: Justified
Baskerville: Flush Left, Ragged Right
Didot: Flush Right, Ragged Left
Century Schoolbook: Centered
Helvetica: Random

Please be sure to read the design concerns listed with each example:

Typeface Classification: Exercise 2 "en"

Garamond

Baskerville

Didot

Century Schoolbook

Helvetica

Typeface Classification: Exercise 2 "ea"

Garamond

Baskerville

Didot

Century Schoolbook

Helvetica

Typeface Classification: Exercise 1

Old Style: Garamond; 1615 

"T"

Transitional: Baskerville; 1757

"Q" 

Modern: Didot; 1788

"g" 

Egyptian (Slab Serif): Century Schoolbook; 1894

"J" 

Sans Serif: Helvetica; 1957

"s"