A foundation course in typography

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Chap Book Progress

By this time you should be well on your way with your chapbooks. To help you stay on schedule, here is how we will proceed so we can finish on schedule.

  • Wednesday, Nov 16 – We  have already reviewed your cover and you should be almost finished with your pages.
  • Monday, Nov 21 – You book should be ready for printing. You will get help in class on setting up for print.
  • Wednesday, Nov 23 – You will submit and b&w printed version along with the original color PDF file by the end of class. We begin to explore the possibilities for creating an interactive digital version of your chapbook
  • Monday, Nov  28 – Begin collecting and adding interactive content.

Type Book Assembly and What to Include

Every type book exercise is to be included. All of the exercises are listed below, including the very last one, is a poster showing all that you’ve learned so far from this project. The titles are based on the assignment sheets. Some of those handouts included more than one exercise. Hopefully this list is clear. If you have question, please ask for clarification.

  • Front Cover
  • Anatomy
  • 5 Families (5 pages)
  • Variations (6 pages)
  • Alignment
  • Alignment 2
  • Leading (2 pages)
  • Tracking (2 pages)
  • Kerning
  • Type on a Path
  • Legibility (in color)
  • Type Color
  • Hierarchy
  • Grid (2 pages)
  • Pattern
  • Embellished Quote
  • Logotype
  • Putting it All Together Poster (a poster design that incorporates everything you have learned about typography. In the 5th column, the Title will be Putting it All Together. You will use columns 1-4 only for your design)

These books will be printed out and bound along the short left edge, where we left space for such details. They should have a clear vinyl front cover and a black vinyl back cover with spiral binding along the left side. You can print the pages out in class, in lab or your own printer. The only page printed in color is the Legibility: Type Color page. The spiral binding is done at Staples or FedEx Kinkos. Don’t wait until the last minute to get this done because they may require that you pick it up later.

The finished books are to be submitted no later than Monday, October 31, 2016.  All projects submitted late will have lowered grades.

Housekeeping Rules for Google Drive

When using Google Drive and submitting your assignments for review, please keep these rules in mind.

  • PLEASE BE CAREFUL – When you are trying to add or delete YOUR work, please pay attention to what you are doing. Someone inadvertently  deleted the class folder for the SELF POSTER project and I quite a bit of time trying to find it and restore it. Delete YOUR item and NOT the whole folder. 
  • UPLOAD YOUR WORK AS PDFs ONLY – When I ask you to submit your work to a folder for grading, DO NOT upload an InDesign document. Save your InDesign file to as PDF file. If your file is not submitted correctly, I will not acknowledge it. If you’re not sure how to save your file as a PDF, please ask.