Week 1

Welcome to Week 1 of Type and Media!

SESSION 1

1. Course Syllabus:

2. Required Text:

3. Review Assignments and submission process

4. Name Tag Interviews!

• Pair up and interview each other: Where are you from? What’s your major? What languages do you speak? What are your career goals when you leave CUNY? What is your spirit animal and why?

• Now ask their name, and design a name tag in a style and font that reflects what you know about your partner’s personality 

• Lastly, present your design choice to the classes, simultaneously introducing your partner

5. History of Letterform

Q1) What might be a contemporary example (or example from another culture) of each of the four categories?

• Pictographs • Ideographs • Phoenician • Greek

Q2) Where is letterform going next as it evolves with technology?

6. Closure and preview of type family:

SESSION 2

1. Introduction (For attendance of each session, read and then comment within the first 10 minutes of class)

• Reading: What is typography?

• Op-Ed  (click to contribute your post, you can choose to make it private, or public to share it in class)

2. Preview on Terms for Type:

3. Type Terminology and Anatomy

4. Five Families of Type and (Classifications)

Q3) Families of Type Recipe

5. Assignment 2: Family Type Worksheet

** SEE ASSIGNMENT PAGE FOR SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

6. In review: