Class Info

  • Date: Thursday, September 21, 2023
  • Meeting Info: In person, Pearl 116, 8:30 to 11:00am, followed by Professor’s office hours in the same room.

Warmups: Miscellaneous Type + Kerning Game

Miscellaneous Types out and about.
Kerning Game

https://type.method.ac/

Topic

Reminders:

  1. Please use your CityTech email for all correspondence.
  2. Type Book. Complete Book with Revisions is due for presentation in Class 11 (October 3). Here’s an example of a finished book from a previous semester (I may adjust a few specifications).

Type Scavenger Hunt: your type from the subway

PLUS


Project 1: Type on a PATH (Page 12 of Book)

Objectives

  • Learn about type arrangement and what happens to type when it is not set on a horizontal path.
    • Vertical Type
    • Curved or Angled Path
    • Circular Path
  • Continue SetUp in Design

Activities

01. Your Type Scavenger Hunt of your favorite subway station due today.

02. Type on a Path.

  • Examples of type on a path Book Series

Look at the entire series of covers, with some interiors, by FBA Portugal.

http://www.fba.pt/portfolio/projects/fenda+book+series-4

  • Comment: Which of these covers catches your attention? Why? Notice that the typography on some do not follow a horizontal path. Is that successful?
  • Use the vocabulary you already know: Use of typeface, leading (space between lines/interlinear space), type on a path, weight, etc.
  • Review, think, and craft a comment. Post in STUDENT POSTS, STUDENT POST TYPE TALK.

Activities

  • You’ll work with type on a path.
toolbox
  • Let’s look at the Type on a PATH tools
    Create new InDesign doc
    • 11″ (inches) wide x 8.5″ high (landscape)
    • .5″ margins all around
    • 1 page
    • Go to the PEN tool and create a sharp-angled path and a curved path
    • Go to the TYPE on a PATH tool, click on path and type in a sentence.
      Change typeface and size, and see how type reacts to the path
    • Create a perfect circle (ellipse tool, hold shift key while dragging.
      Go to the TYPE on a PATH tool, click on path and type in one word.
      Pay attention to where you are placing cursor, change typeface, size, and alignment.

This is a practice run. You do not need to upload this.

Also, here’s more info about Type on a Path.

Assignment

First, review how to create a circular path in InDesign by M. Giuliani.

Below: preliminary step.

Type on a Path. Preliminary.

This video also demonstrates how to put text on both sides of a circle.

Please remember your solutions should not look like the sample provided. Do your own design. Forge your own path. 😉

Complete page 12 (path) of the Project 1 InDesign document. This PDF shows the Type Book so far (with Type on a Path in process).

Instructions:

  • Column #5. Text for heading : Type on a Path
  • You can use the entire area of the 4 first columns
    • Use text related to the person you chose and create a typographical composition using a circular path. If the of your person is short, add some more text, for example a line describing the person or the year he/she/they/it was born or founded.
  • Pay attention to all spacing and layout issues discussed in class and adjust as necessary.
  • Remember– NOW that you know about type and its variations (different styles of the same typeface), italics and bolds must be used to emphasize text. 
  • Your choice of caps & lowercase or all caps, or all lowercase.
  • Save your inDesign file
  • Export page 12 only as a PDF: Lastname_path_092123.pdf
  • Upload PDF file only (of page 12) in DROPBOX

Below: A version incorporating items listed above:

Less preliminary, uses different weights.

While you work, I’ll review your work one-on-one.

Work Due 092623: THREE items.

o1. Page 12. Export page 12 as a pdf and upload to Dropbox.

lastname_path_092123

o2. Page 12+. Find and have for next class a photo of your person. You’ll convert it to black and white.

Also make refinements to pages 2 through 11.

03. Type Scavenger Hunt: Find one example of vertical type or type on a curve and discuss its use and success (or lack thereof).

lastname_TSH_092123

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Grading Note
Project 3: Steps/ progress not done by due dates (-points)
Upload to Dropbox with naming convention as instructed.

I’m using rubrics to grade and track your Project 1. I’m also using rubrics to track your Participation. Although there are no grades for Participation, there are minuses if you do not participate.

Here, the word “rubric” means a set of guidelines and an explanation and system of how you are evaluated/graded. To be academic, here’s the dictionary definition. Interestingly, the word originates with hand-written manuscripts, with some text in red to set it off from other text.

Here’s the Participation Rubric.

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Class 09 is on Tuesday, September 26.

Thinking ahead: You will present your Type Book during Class 11 (October 3, 2023).

Graphic Assignments are always due the day before next class by 8pm, and must be uploaded to the Dropbox to which I invited you unless indicated otherwise. Assignments go into Dropbox. Participation Activities go into OpenLab.

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