Ways of Seeing – FYLC Fall 2019
First Year Learning Community
French for “popular workshop,” the renegade print workshop established at Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts during nationwide protests in France in May 1968. The workshop created new images daily to respond to events.
The posters produced by the ATELIER POPULAIRE are weapons in the service of the struggle and are an inseparable part of it. Their rightful place is in the center of the conflict. To use them for decorative purposes, to display them in bourgeois places of culture or to consider them as objects of aesthetic interest is to impair both their function and their effect.… Read More...
Lorem ipsum, in a graphical and textual context, refers to filler text that is placed in a document or visual presentation. Lorem ipsum is derived from the Latin “Dolores Ipsum” roughly translated as “pain itself.” Lorem ipsum presents the sample font and orientation of writing on Web pages and other software applications where content is not the main concern of the developer.… Read More...
Widows and Orphans are lines of text that appear at the beginning or end of a paragraph, which is left alone at the top or bottom of a line. There is some debate about the exact definitions of these terms but as a rule of thumb:
The ascender is the portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the mean line of a font (the x-height). On the other hand, the descender is the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font.… Read More...
Kerning refers to the spacing between the characters of a font. Without kerning, each character takes up a block of space and the next character is printed after it. When kerning is applied to a font, the characters can vertically overlap. This does not mean that the characters actually touch, but instead it allows part of two characters to take up the same vertical space.… Read More...
As This semester finally comes to an end; it started off easy and smooth but on the long run it started to get challenging with the assignments and exams every class threw at me. I overcame , doing better on some things than others but at the end you learn what you did wrong and how to work on it. For an example I did poorly in some exams because of the lack of study based off putting my time into assignments that were due the same day as the exam. Therefore this was time management I was struggling with … Read More...
Entering City Tech has certainly been a whole new world to me. Going from being in a private school, where there are plenty of restrictions and requirements, to finally being solely on my own without much advisement, has most definitely taken a toll on me, but it has also taught me a lot. My school didn’t offer any courses which would’ve benefited me in my preferred career path, so I pretty much walked into college with zero experience in anything, which also caused me to feel as though I didn’t fit in. I’ve had to get used to doing things … Read More...
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