(Assignments subject to change at discrection of instructor)
Week
Topic
Text Readings
Assignments
Due Dates
Week #1
Type Origins
Basic Type Vocabulary
Type Rules text: Chpt.#1 Brief History of Type AND
Chapter #2: From Metal to Mac: Understanding Font Technology
•Orientation Activity:Tell us about Yourself
•Historical summary - discussion
• 2/9-9am
• 2/2-9am
Week#2
2/2
Categories of Type
Readability /Legibility
Chapter#3: What Makes a Typeface Look the Way it Does AND
Chpt. #4 Selecting the Right Type
•Legibility and readability study
•Discussion: Readability and Legibility
• 2/18-9am
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Week#3
2/9
Type Design
Letterforms
Choosing the Right Type
Second Life
Second Life Info
• SL/Avatars
•Type Self Portrait Forum
• 2/15-12am
• 2/18-12am
Week#4
2/16
Type Personality
Type "palettes" that work together
•SL CAMERA VIDEO TUTORIALS
•Women typographers file •Paula Scher Work
•Interview with Paula Sher
•Personality Match
•SL Scavenger Hunt
•Quiz #1 History and Anatomy of Type
• 2/23-9am
Week#5
2/23
Hierarchy of information
Type Contrasts
What's the Right Text Type (pdf)
•Chptr#5:Basic Techniques for Emphasis
•Type Hierarchy movie
•113 Hierarchy Examples
•CRITIQUING GUIDE
•Hierarchy Study
•Add all assignments to Process Book
• 3/4-9:30am
• 3/30-12am
Week#6
3/2
Spacing: Kerning/Line
Chapter#6:Advanced Techniques for Emphasis
Character Spacing
•Add all assignments to Process Book
• 3/11-9am
Week#7
3/9**
Grids
Chapter #7:Basic Fine-Tuning and Tweaking
•Grids Assignment
•Add all assignments to Process Book
• Quiz #2 Chapter 4,5,6 Online
• 3/23-7pm
Week#8
3/16
Fine-Tuning your work
•Chapter#8: Advanced Fine Tuning
•Review for Midterm
•Grids Assignment
•Add all assignments to Process Book
• 3/23-7pm
Week#9
3/23
Midterm Week
•Chapter#9:Typos and how to avoid them
•Midterm Process Book
•Written Midterm
• 3/29-12am
SPRING BREAK
3/30
Week#10
4/6
Grids
Type Poster Design
Chapter 10 Signs and Symbols
• Event Poster
• 4/12-12amThumbnails
Week#11
4/13
• Event Poster
•Add all assignments to Process Book
•quiz 3: Ch 7, 8 & 9 & online lessons
• 4/20-9am• 4/15-12am
• 4/20-8pm-SL crit
• 4/15-12am
• 4/20-8pmSL crit
Week#12
4/20
Book Cover Design
•Book Jacket Design
Week#13
4/27
•Book Jacket Design
•Add all assignments to Process Book
• 5/4-9am
Week#14
5/4••
Redone assignments (only those turned in on time originally) due next week. You can only get up to 90 points out of 100 on redone work.
•Process Book
Week#15
5/11••
•Process Book
• TBA- SL Crit
Week#16
5/18••
EXAM WEEK
• Written Final