Class 29

Class Info

• Date: Thursday, December 15, 2022

• Meeting Info: In person, Pearl 116, 8:30 to 11:00am, followed by Professor’s office hours from 11:00am to noon in Pearl 116.

Topics

• Complete Work. Refine. Prepare for final presentation, posts and submission of class activities.

Subtopics

Once you’ve refined and done everything, see items below:

• A conversation with Tré Seals, by Steven Heller, in Print (digital) magazine.
  • What do you think about how Tré Seals researches to make his typefaces?
  • Also have a look at the article about Tré Seals’s book, Dream in Color and see the 7 images shown on Amazon (just some of the posters of power in the book).
• Wood type, a blog entry by letterform expert Paul Shaw.
  • Look in particular at the wood type samples.
• More on animation: Professor Giuliani’s How-to on tweening.
• Related to communication if not to design: of interest to video game lovers.

Objectives

• Learn to present.

Activities

• Refine work; Prep for in class presentation.
• See Class 28 for Checklist/specs/recap of what needs to be done.
• Are the headings on Project 03, page 4 clear and easy to read?
• Complete Social Media posts and gifs. See Class 26 for review of making an animated GIF. See also PDF handout.
• Test your animated GIF. Is yours compelling? How can this one be improved?

Activity 2

• ONLY If everything is perfect and if I’ve reviewed work with you, return to the ALL TYPE Type Challenge from Class 28
• TYPE CHALLENGE. 
• Student Posts > Type Challenge > Lastname_Holidays2_121522
• Create an 8.5 x 11″ poster with the word “Holidays” with TYPE ONLY and WITHOUT any illustration. Use Expressive Typography and a typeface different from the one you deployed in Class 27 (Dec. 8). You can work in InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop but, again, use TYPE ONLY. If you work in Photoshop, animate some of it. TYPE ONLY.
• NOTE: If you get a message about “not enough space,” then upload your Type Challenge to Dropbox.

Assignment