1. Finish reading Chapter 1, “Introduction” in Digital Media Primer the required text for this class and also complete Chapter Two “Fundamentals in Digital Imaging”.
2. Read the following sections on the Microsoft Typography site “About Fonts” section. Specifically, read the sections that explain OpenType, Clear Type and Truetype at:
3. Read the article on the Google Redesign at Fast Company  and also the article in Fast Company on Airline Identity.
4. Also read this article on the Apple site regarding the location of fonts on the Mac.
5. Register at a photography stock agency such as Getty (registration is free).
6. Read about Creative Commons and search for images on that site that you might be interested in using for your visual quote project.
7. Read or listen to the Drum Major Speech by Martin Luther King. Link to Youtube Video is below:

 

Written Homework & Project Assignments

1. For your visual quote Project, please have ready two sketches for your visually enhanced quotation project. As we discussed in class, the final size of this project will be 8.5″ by 5.47″.  As a follow-up to what we discussed in class, see a complete description of this project on this site at https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/comd1112fa2019goetz/syllabus/visual-quote-project/

So, work on completing at least two sketches for  your visually enhanced quotation project. These preliminary sketches should be completed by February 14th and uploaded to the blackboard drop box. Below are examples of visual quote sketches:

These sketches can be done by hand on paper (size the paper to 8.5″ X 5.47″ for your sketches) and take photos of each sketch and then put them in the blackboard drop box. You can have more than 2 sketches if you like. If you do the sketches and are comfortable moving them into the computer, that’s fine and you can upload the computer files if you like. Either way, I am looking for concepts here–2 distinct concepts to visually communicate your selected quote. One of these concepts should be all typographic and one of them can use photography or an illustration.

Here is a site you can use for inspiration.