Class Info

  • Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2023
  • 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.

Topic

  • Last Class: Presentation of Project 3.
  • Wrap up the semester.
    • Type & Media, a foundation course in typography, introduced you to working with TYPE. In the course, among the items we covered were:
      • History of letterforms and evolution of same
      • Vocabulary and Classification
      • Best practices for clear communication
      • Type on Paths
      • Grids
      • Expressive Typography
      • Creating your own letterforms
      • Readability and Legibility
      • Conceptualizing and sketching
      • Communicating clearly with type to call attention to a subject (your pet peeve), using a document of a dimension larger than the first two projects and designing for print.
      • Same as above but using dimensions smaller than the first two projects and the posters in the final project and designing for Social Media posts.
      • Elementary animation.
      • Pulling everything together.
  • Grading is based on:
    • Timeliness (Remember: Project 3 was due to be finished Dec. 14)
    • Progress
    • Adherence to the specifications
    • Participation and doing in-class activities.
    • COMMUNICATION. Alerting to problems in advance.
    • Pushing beyond what you already knew
    • Aesthetics—always more qualitative than quantitative—also count.
  • Grades will be posted by December 27.

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Activity: PRESENTATION

  • Final Presentation. We will start at 8:45am.
  • Each of you will present for a maximum of 7 minutes total, with 4 minutes for your presentation and 3 minutes for feedback. (15 minutes from 8:30–8:45 + 112 minutes. = 127 minutes. = 23 minutes left for roundup or departure.)
  • Discuss the following.
    • How did your topic lend itself to a typographical solution?
    • Talk about your sketches and whether it was difficult to conceptualize.
    • Why did you deploy the typography and images you’ve used?
    • Where did you find your images?
    • What were the challenges you faced in your work?
    • What are two things you learned this semester that you didn’t know before?
    • What was the most useful Participation Exercise?
    • Is there a topic or exercise you would like to have explored further or that you’d like more information to better understand?
    • Will you take an early morning class again?

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Closing Remarks

It’s been an honor to teach you. Congratulations on completing what is for many of you your first semester in college. Intense! Keep at it! DO THE WORK. BE TIMELY. COMMUNICATE IN ADVANCE! Keep in touch. Enjoy your holidays and break. Happy New Year!

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EXTRAS!

Here are some extras for you to enjoy when you’re not catching up with sleep:

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Again, grades will be posted by December 27, 2023 latest.

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Happy Holidays.

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