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Typography: Frankentype

Process: 01. Using pencil or pen, draw the following letter parts with as much diversity as possible. - 5 stems - 5 arms - 5 legs - 5 tails - 5 Os - 5 crossbars - 5 spines - 5 serifs - 5 sans-serif terminals 02. Scan in your drawings (300dpi, 100% scale) 03. Import [...]
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Typography: Type Tracing

Assignment #02: Type Tracing One way to become familiar with different characteristics of various kinds of type is to draw them. It not only gives you a better idea of how the letters are formed and what makes them different, but what it takes to draw them well. As you will read in the article [...]
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Luca Barcellona’s Amazing Calligraphy

Calligraphy is certainly related to typography, but it’s not something we practice all that often. (Certainly not often enough.) This guy is GOOOOD. Legacy of Letters from Luca Barcellona on Vimeo.
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Typography: Type Terms

Assignment #01:  Vocabulary Typography has a language all it’s own. Just so we’re all on the same page, you’ll need to learn it. Look up the typographic definitions to these terms so we can use them throughout the semester. (You will find many of these definitions in your book, Thinking With Type by Ellen Lupton, [...]
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Typography: Check this out

01. Go to FontShop’s new educational page, and then check out the PDF called “Meet Your Type.” (click the PDF link and choose “Save Link to desktop” or something like that.) 02. Read the PDF. Make some notes to talk about during class on Wednesday. 03. Check out more of the FontShop site. It’s a [...]
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Welcome Back – Fall 2010

Hi everyone. Welcome back to RSU. As you can see, it’s been a busy summer. We have an all new Graphic Design Lab, two great new studios downstairs for painting, printmaking, drawing, etc., top-of-the-line photography labs, an amazing new gallery, and an awesome building housing it all. You have a Wacom tablet at your computer. [...]
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The Vignelli Twelve

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    Graphic Design I:
    Elements & Principles
    Critique: Thursday Sept. 16th
    DUE: Thursday Sept. 23rd

    Graphic Design III
    InDesign Lessons #01-09 and #13

    Typography:
    Frankentype
    DUE: Wednesday Sept. 8th

    Printmaking:
    Linoleum Cuts
    DUE: Monday Sept. 13th

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