Thursday, June 5, 2008

Typography Test Review

This is what you need to know for the final test tomorrow, and where to find it:

In your typography packets:

1. Type measurement conversions: Points>Picas / Points>Inch / Picas>Inch
2. How to measure LEADING
3. How to measure the line length of different text alignments (Examples A-E)
4. How to use the E-Gauge to measure type

In Basics of Design: Layout and Typography for Beginners
1. 4 Things to Know before starting a design: Page 2
2. Graphic Design Principles: P 12-14
3. Graphic Design process: P 14-19
4. What is VISUAL HIERARCHY & how to establish it P 25-26
5. Different text alignments: P 101-104
6. Type Flavors and Subflavors: P 217-224
7. Type Anatomy: P 205 (baseline, ascender, serif, counter, descender, x height, crossbar, cap height)

Miscellaneous online info:
1. How LEADING got its name: http://lowendmac.com/designer/11.html


World of Letterforms Video:
1. What the letter A originally symbolized
2. Who invented moveable type & what they created with it
3. What did Mantius create and why?
4. What did Bodoni, Garamond, Baskerville & Benquiat create?

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Follow these links for directions to projects:

Photo Cube 6 Theme Based Images = 1 Rockin objet d'art!
Your Choice: Six of Your Own Altered Photos
Or
Your Favorite Song in Six School Appropriate Panels

Lenticular Image 2...2...2 Pictures in One!
Show the same object in two different states (My cat as a Muppet and as a Lion)
Show a pair of objects (Hall & Oates)
Show a set of opposites (Day & Night, Good & Evil, Man & Woman, etc.)