Typography II Projects


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Protected: Type in Space – Photographic Play & Experimentation

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Project Goals

  • Play with typographic form
  • Experimentation with typographic anatomy and classification
  • Practice moving between real-space and on-screen
  • Have fun for the class period before leaving for spring break

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Protected: Typeset Books – Copyright Law

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Project Goals

  • Work with a large body of text
  • Create clear typographic hierarchy
  • Effectively utilize InDesign Paragraph and Character Styles with nested relationships based a single typeface
  • Visually organize complex text content
  • Extrapolate value and interest from otherwise mundane content
  • Professionally prepare files for distribution and production

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Protected: Screen Typography – Intro to Processing

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Project Goals

  • Play and experimentation will be rewarded in the evaluation of this project.
  • Develop a basic understanding of how the Processing programming environment works.
  • Develop a basic understanding of programming fundamentals.
  • Use basic coding to develop generative typographic compositions
  • Save generated compositions as vector / PDFs
  • Engage with readings from design theory to generate project content.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of design fundamentals such as selection of quality fonts, development of visual hierarchy, use of color, use of negative space, etc.

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Protected: Type in Space – COVID-19 Edition

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Project Goals

  • Explore typography and meaning in physical space
  • Be clever and inventive with what you have access to (as many university resources have just been shuttered for COVID-19 lockdown)
  • Play with creating a variety of individual clips of in-camera work, then editing together a longer final video
  • Explore color correction and visual manipulation of video
  • Demonstrate the ability to sync edits to audio

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Protected: Anatomy of a {Letterform’s} Murder

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Project Goals

  • Review typographic anatomy.
  • Review typographic classifications.
  • Encourage formal exploration and typographic deconstruction.
  • Become comfortable moving from on-screen to off-screen and back.
  • Practice using flatbed scanners.