There are a million places to buy printmaking materials. Here are a few:
Zeiglers / Lewis & 244 / www.zieglerart.com
www.danielsmith.com
www.dickblick.com
www.imcclains.com
Printmaking Materials
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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, or on the accompanying website. Others can be found at Adobe’s Typographic Glossary or this page about Typography.)
THE LIST:
| Baseline Beardline Capline X-height Alignment Apex Arm Ascender Bowl Counter Crossbar Descender Ear |
Eye Grid Hairline Leg Link Serif Shoulder Spine Spur Stem Stroke Tail Terminal |
Capitals Lowercase Small caps Lining figures Old style figures Monospace Line-length Ligatures Serifs Weight Width Posture Stress |
Font Type family Justification Tracking Kerning PostScript Open Type Points Picas Rivers Dingbats Typeface Widows Orphans |
DUE on Monday Aug 23rd
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Printmaking I: Check this out
I just got this email from DanielSmith.com offering FREE SHIPPING for the next week. If I were buying printmaking supplies, I might go look around on DanielSmith.com and then enter the promo code: WSHIPAUG to save some money.
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Design III: Zines
Here are the details for your zine assignment.
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01. Your zine should be self-generated content. In other words, you write the body copy, you draw the illustrations, you take the photos, etc. You should keep the amount of images approximately equal to the amount of text.
02. The book will consist of 4 sheets of 8.5″x11″ copy paper folded in half (that makes a 16 page book). The final size is 8.5″x5.5″
03. The pages will need to be copied on both sides. Therefore, you will need to find a copier that will let you do such. It may take a few tries to get things to print the right way, on the right side of the paper.
04. The book is to be black and white.
05. You may use the computer to create individual lines of type, and to rotate, crop, and re-size photos. You may not use Photoshop Filters or Effects. Nor should you combine images and photos in Photoshop. All of that stuff should be done with cut paper as discussed in class.
06. You will turn in 2 copies of the book, as well as the original paste-up. You will keep the other 3 copies (or more if you choose to make them).
CRITIQUE: Tuesday Aug. 24th
Come to class with a mock-up or “dummy copy” of your book where you’ve sketched in where things should go.
DUE: Thursday Sept. 2nd
All 5 copies, plus the paste-up
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ZINE LINKS
- Go HERE (and scroll down) to download PDF versions of some crusty ancient punk zines
- Kate Bingaman-Burt She makes some really great little zines full of drawings and whatnot
- Independent Publishing Resource Center
- Zine World
- Small Press Expo
- The Zine Book
- David Bailey (Tom Cruise comic)
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Printmaking I: Watch these…
Here is a nice series of videos describing the relief printing process. Watch them:
http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_3010_make-relief-block-print.html
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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 great resource regarding typography.
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Graphic Design I – Good vs Bad
For Tuesday, you are to visit the Design Archives at http://designarchives.aiga.org to find an example of good design, and an example of bad design. Then, you need to write down the name of the project or designer, or some way to find it again so that we can discuss it in class on Tuesday.
That being said, this is the Archive of projects deemed worthy by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, so it stands to reason that most of the work featured is considered “good.” However, not everyone will like the same things, so we can talk about liking something, versus whether or not it’s “good” and so on.
Regardless, you should be there ready to DISCUSS on Tuesday.
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Graphic Design I: Who is a graphic designer?
These people are graphic designers. Men, women, old, and young. These are some of the most influential voices in the world of graphic design. Since we can’t fly all these people in, and have them visit our class, we’ll do the next best thing thanks to Hillman Curtis (a film-maker who has shot all these profile pieces on great designers).
(We’re going to watch these in class on Thursday the 19th… so don’t watch them yet.)
Milton Glaser is the great-granddad of graphic design. He’s been making ground-breaking illustrations and design for over 50 years. That is a very long time to be consistently good.
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