Today, we are:
Having an optional class!
Looking at finished instances
For next time:
Make sure you’ve turned in things, then take a break! Relax. Stay healthy. Then start thinking about all this some more when you have space in your brain.
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Today in class, we are:
Looking at your redesigned Instances!
For next time:
1. Comment on the Instances of each person in class (any that are uploaded) and choose at least one instance from each classmate to give one superlative (list of superlatives below)
2. Comment as needed/helpful on as many classmates’ work as you choose to give people feedback on their work: • what could be stronger • what’s strong as is • what’s interesting • what’s almost perfect • what’s illegible • what’s on an interesting line between form and function
3. Bring in ____ revised versions of your redesigned Instances
Superlatives to assign:
🛠 Most Useful
📖 Most Legible
👯♂️ Most Expressive
😎 Most Cool
☑️ Best Button
⌨️ Best Monospace
📟 Best Bitmap Type
Today in class, we are:
Looking over diagrams and explanations
Talking about the next part of Instances project
For next time:
Comment on 2-4 other people’s diagrams/explanations. Do you agree with them? Is there something you can add? Is there something good or that needs work about their recreation?
Create 5-10 redesigned versions (total) of your instances.
Today in class, we are:
Looking over the typographic instances you brought in
Talking about the next part of this project
For next time:
Choose 4 of your instances, recreate them in Illustrator, then point out the pieces and explain the likely reasons for the choices
Look through other people’s typographic instances, and comment on 3-7.
Today in class, we are:
Turning in Modified Type/WHO posts/posters!
Talking about our new project, Typographic Instances/Working Type
Brainstorming!
For next time:
- Find 12 or more examples (photos!). Normally I’d say go take all these pictures. But since we can’t do that as much, it’s ok to use photos you took a while back and it’s ok to find things online.
- Read Michael Bierut’s Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface
- Look over everyone’s finished WHO/Modified Type Posters and comment on at least 3
Today, we are:
Looking at WHO/Modified Type images/posters!
For next time:
Revise the work we talked about in class today to turn in Thursday
Today in class, we are:
Talking about the next part of this project
Potentially demonstrating any new skills for the project
For next time:
- Comment on two people’s refined sketches/comps
- Upload two refined digital posters (social media post size)
- We’ll use Tuesday’s class like a digital pin-up
Today in class, we are:
Talking about the reading from Lettering & Type
Talking about our next steps in the WHO/Modified Type project
For next time:
Crime Broadsides
Look through the Crime broadsides and comment on broadsides from at least two different people. Look for broadsides without comments so we’re getting more conversations going and more feedback about this work.
WHO Project
Comment on two people’s initial sketches using the criteria above
Using the feedback you get from those comments, create either: 5-10 digital comps for your posters OR 5-10 detailed, intentional, good sketches that take your ideas to their next step.
Today in class, we are:
Making sure everyone can turn in the Crime Broadsides
Talking about our new modified type / coronavirus project
For next time:
- Read p. 61–85 in Lettering & Type
(Modular Letters – Customizing Type) - Look at the examples of modified type I posted on the class site: Pinterest Board of Modified Type Examples
- Decide on a brief/message from the 6 WHO-suggested messages.
- Begin sketching ideas for your image/poster as a whole or for your type within it. Create 5-10 sketches/ideas.
Today in class, we are:
Looking at Crime Broadsides
Beginning another set of the Crime Broadsides
For next time:
Revise 2 of your Crime broadsides and create 2 new ones