Post an image of a design that uses size and scale to create tension in a design. Talk about why it works, who designed it, and what it is for. Categorize your post as Blog HW #5.
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Blog HW #4 Martha Stewart
Research Martha Stewart’s design style, and post 2 images of distinctive designs done for any of her publications—books, magazines, websites. (Until October 2012, her creative director was Gael Towey, so you may want to research her as well.) Discuss Martha Stewart’s design style: the images, the typefaces, the layouts.
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Categorize your homework as Blog HW#4.
HW #3 Mixing, kerning, tracking, leading, marking paragraphs
In your reading, you learned about:
pp. 54-55 Mixing Typefaces
pp. 102-105 Kerning and Tracking
pp. 108-111 Line Spacing (leading)
pp. 126-127 Marking Paragraphs
Find and post an example of each of the following. Please put them all in one post and label them in the post. Use the “add media” button in the menu right above you when you’re writing your blog post to add images.
- One great example of typeface mixing.
- One great or horrible (your choice) or either kerning or tracking.
- One great or horrible example (your choice) of line spacing (leading).
- And one great example of marking paragraphs.
Categorize your homework as Blog HW#3.
Blog HW#2
In the reading, Ellen Lupton talks about a lot of different typefaces, type designers, type designs, and type movements you may not have heard of before (for example: lettera antica, the romain du roi, monster fonts, avant-garde and abstract type, early digital type, the Bauhaus, and De Stijl). Find out more about one of these (or choose something else from the reading) and write 2 paragraphs about it—pretend you are telling someone who has no idea about graphic design. Post 2 images that you think best illustrate what you are researching. Categorize your post as Blog HW#2.
Blog HW#1: Printed Word
Make a blog account (add yourself as an “author”, see below) and make a new post: write a paragraph about your response to this 12-minute video, “An Anthology of the Printed Word” by Liz Dautzenberg and Simone van Saarloos.
Check “Blog Homework 1″ as the category.
The film was shot as an undergraduate student project by two female students who were “book lovers”. They were students at the new school and this is their final project. Liz is a film studies student and Simone is a literature and philosophy major.
They were concerned about how many people they noticed in NYC who were reading “things” on the subway and those things were not books, but hand-held devices. They were big fans of going to small bookstores, since they came from Amsterdam where there were far fewer kindles, nooks and e-readers (and far more bicycles and small, independent bookstores). So for their student film, they went around NYC and made this artistic statement. It’s still a work in progress, as Liz told me.
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