Type 2, 9:30 AM:
Book: 7×7 (spread is 14×7)
Colors: blue & sea foam
Download 14×7 Illustrator file with spot colors
Type 2, 2:00 PM:
Book: 7×10 (spread is 17×10)
Colors: pink & blue
Author: Daniel (page 6 of 7)
If you found something in the template books you want, these are the files that are on the CDs.
Today in class, we are:
Looking at your artifact sketches/ideas
Looking at your type
Talking about type specimen books
Working!
For next time:
Keep making any refinements you need to your type
Bring in prototypes/mockups for your artifacts
- Create an initial design, print it out, put it together
- Lo-fi is ok!
Today in class, we are:
Doing an exercise on Type Classification
Looking at your type
Talking about the next phase of this project (Artifacts + Type Specimen)
Working!
For next time:
Revise your typeface
Bring in ideas, sketches, brainstorms for artifacts
Seeing type in use is much more powerful than simply seeing the alphabet in various sizes. It shows off its best features, gives possible contexts, and shows potential uses. For our project, too, it helps create a way for it to live in the world.
Today in class, we are:
Looking at your type!
Refining!
Making new type!
For next time:
Make the rest of your alphabet + punctuation
In the Designing Typefaces chapter of Lettering and Type, read Behind a Face – Punctuation and Accents (97–118)
Today in class, we are:
Looking at your current set of letters (you should have 10 at this point)
Working on new letters
For next time:
Revise your current letters and make 10 new letters to make 20 letters total.
- Spell out actual words with your type!
In Lettering & Type, read the chapter Systems & Typologies, pages 16–35.
As we continue to expand and refine the typefaces you’re creating, we’ll be going back and forth between expanding, testing, refining, expanding, and more testing.
At the end of this process, you should have:
1. a complete alphabet (upper or lowercase)
2. at least 4 punctuation symbols