PROJECT 2
CREATIVE and PLAYFUL TYPOGRAPHY
Learn about strategies and skills that will help us make typography a bit more playful.
Apply unique characteristics to type as it relates to a brand or logotype
Illustrator- more tools
Activities
Contents
Continue to explore Tools:
WARP text and Offset Path (outline) in Illustrator
Create 3.5 x 3.5 inches document with 8 art boards
lastname first name TC P2-1
Board 1 Select 2 words that go together
Explore the warp tool in Illustrator, and make the words connect (stacked) with the ARC UPPER and ARC LOWER tool
Create a n OFFSET PATH
Try a couple of variations.
![](https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/desantiscomd2427d036fall24/files/2023/01/Class-14-–-Fall-22-–-COMD1127-Type-and-Media-Spring-23.jpg)
For WARP: OBJECT>ENVELOPE DISTORT>MAKE WITH WARP> CHOOSE WARP effect>
WHEN done- OBJECT> ENVELOPE DISTORT> EXPAND.
For OFFSET PATH> OBJECT>PATH>OFFSET PATH select specific measurements.
Boards 2-6 Select one of your words from homework
![](https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/desantiscomd2427d036fall24/files/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-27-at-10.38.03-AM.png)
explore the different options of the warp tool
Boards 7-8 Select one of your words from homework
explore the touch up type tool
![](https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/desantiscomd2427d036fall24/files/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-27-at-10.39.11-AM.png)
For WARP: OBJECT>ENVELOPE DISTORT>MAKE WITH WARP> CHOOSE WARP effect>
WHEN done- OBJECT> ENVELOPE DISTORT> EXPAND.
For OFFSET PATH> OBJECT>PATH>OFFSET PATH select specific measurements.
Upload to Dropbox Type challenge
lastname first name TC P2-1
Then FILE> EXPORT AS >
Export As
![](https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/desantiscomd2427d036fall24/files/2024/03/E1.jpg)
Select jpg and art boards at bottom
![](https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/desantiscomd2427d036fall24/files/2024/03/E3.jpg)
Jpg options maximum
![](https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/desantiscomd2427d036fall24/files/2024/03/E4.jpg)
Other various export options of the supported file formats.
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/exporting-artwork.html
Save As:
If your document contains more than one artboard and you want to save to a previous version of Illustrator, you can choose to save each artboard as a separate file or combine the content from all artboards into a single file.