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Class 1
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: First Day handout and general class info
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 2
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: The written language and origin of letterforms
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 3
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Intro to Classification of Type: Serif/Sans Serif/Script/Display
How to Access Typefaces (web and print) Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts, etc - Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 4
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Intro to Project 1: Type Book
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 5
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Basic Type Related Vocabulary 1: Baseline/capline/ x-height/lowercase/uppercase/ ascender/descender, etc.
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 6
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: More on Classification of Type: Serif/Sans Serif/Script/Display
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 7
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Variations: width, weight, posture, contrast, serif
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 8
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Alignment–FL, FR, Center, Justify
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 9
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Space: Line Length (or leading), Word Space (kerning & tracking)
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 10
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Type on a PATH / How to do a cover
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 11
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: How to Complete Book (Package files/Binding)
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 12
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: PRESENTATIONS PROJECT 1
Start conversation about Expressive Type - Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 13
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Intro to Project 2
- Expressive Type (with Typefaces)
- Research and sketching
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 14
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Expressive Type (with Typefaces)
- Moving into the computer
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 15
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Lettering and Word Experimentation
- Research and sketching
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 16
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Lettering and Word Experimentation
- Next Steps: Individual Approach–What is the best way to create your lettering
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 17
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Lettering and Word Experimentation
- Prepare for presentation
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 18
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Presentations Project 2
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 19
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: TBD
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 20
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Color and Texture in Typography /Legibility
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 21
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: The Typographical Grid
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 22
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Visual Hierarchy
Intro Project 3: Posters and Social Media Posts - Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 23
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Continue Project 3: Poster 1 and 2
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 24
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Continue Project 3: Poster 3 – Text Wrap
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 25
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Continue Project 3: Color – Social Media
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 26
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Continue Project 3: Type in Motion – Social Media
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 27
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Continue Project 3: DUE next class
How to Prepare for presentations and final submissions - Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 28
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Project 3: Presentations and Submissions
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 29
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Wrap up class activities
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Class 30
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Last class
- Activities: Add assignments, activities
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