(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
•
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 Contrasts
Type Personality
•Interview with Paula Sher
• LetterForms
• SL Scavenger Hunt
•Quiz #1 History and Anatomy of Type
• 2/23-9am
Week#5
2/23
Hierarchy of information
Chapter#5: Basic Techniques for Emphasis
•Hierarchy Study
•Process Book
• 3/4-9:00am
• 3/30-12am
Week#6
3/2
Spacing: Kerning/Line
Chapter#6:Advanced Techniques for Emphasis
Character Spacing
•Process Book
• 3/11-9am
Week#7
3/9**
Grids
Chapter #7:Basic Fine-Tuning and Tweaking
•Grids Assignment
•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
•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
Type Poster Design
Chapter 10 Signs and Symbols
• Event Poster
• 4/12-12amThumbnails
Crit in SL TBA
Week#11
4/13
Online lecture and links
• Event Poster
•quiz 3: Ch 7, 8 & 9 & online lessons
• 4/20-9am• 4/20 - 9am
4/20- 9am
•4/22• 4/15-12am
• 4/20-8pm-SL crit
• 4/15-12am
• 4/20-8pmSL crit
Week#12
4/20
Book Cover Design
Online lecture and links
•Book Jacket Design
• 4/27-12amThumbnails
Crit in SL TBA
Week#13
4/27
Type on the Web
Online lecture and links
•Book Jacket Design
• 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.
Online lecture and links
•Process Book
• Website design
• 5/06
Week#15
5/11
•Process Book
• TBA- SL Crit
Week#16
5/18
EXAM WEEK
• Written Final