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 >>>