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.

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

explore the different options of the warp tool

Boards 7-8 Select one of your words from homework

explore the touch up type tool

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

Select jpg and art boards at bottom

Jpg options maximum

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.