Hello everyone! I missed you guys!

Classwork

InDesign

• Multi-page documents: please use this template as i found a little mistake in the old one.
• Page Panel
  • Master pages
  • Pagination
•  Downloading and installing fonts
• Well-crafted fonts vs. badly-crafted ones
• Types of font files

Note: If you do want to grab a new font please download and install fonts from Font Squirrel or Lost Type Co-op. They are well drawn, legal, and usually pretty darn lovely.

Type Book: Assignment 2
Create a 5-page document. Each page should have 1 layout with specific characters of each of five families of type. Each page must display a sample of a font within a specific family, and list characteristics. See the Typebook, Exercise 2 handout for more details.

Homework

Finish Classwork

Study for Quiz 1

• History of Letterforms
• Typographical Anatomy
• Drawing a Letterform
• Kerning, Leading
•  Five Families of Type

Let’s get back into the groove! Here’s a lovely video that will get us back into the mood for type:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKKDL6lekmA

Lecture:

Layout

• Working on the Grid
• Rules, strokes
• Exploring InDesign: review
• Guides, margins, and other layout aids
• Project #1: The Type Book: Choose a performer, famous person, or fictional character about whom you will write your type book assignments. You will use this person’s name or text about them to tie the exercises together thematically.
  • How to create Type Book assignments:  
    • The class template
  • Type Book: Create a 1 page document which labels the following type components: baseline, meanline, capline, serif, counter, x-height, ascenders, descenders.

A note about the Typebook:
You need to collect all your assignments at the end of the semester to print the project out as a spiral bound book. I will have a sample today in class for you to see. You need to keep track of all the pages, and you need to turn them in on time.

Homework

Reading
Review The Five Families of Type

Journal: Due by Next Thursday

Find examples that use a typefaces that belong to each of the five families of type. In what scenario are they used? Put the printed examples together with paragraphs describing the family to which you think it belongs and why.

For example, find and identify a typeface that belongs to the Modern family. Describe what helped you classify it and why it may have been chosen for that particular layout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHDUY71t-BM

Once again, to clarify:

I am not able to make it to school. Therefore, our class is cancelled. I have notified the office, but have not heard back, so I do not think there will even be an attendance sheet on the door. School has yet to be cancelled, but I am canceling our session for today as I cannot be there. We will be meeting tomorrow.

Just checked and the F train is not moving. Jeez louise! Very scary outside. STAY HOME if you can! I realize the school has not been cancelled, but this is very silly and getting dangerous.

I will post the information for today. May you all be warm and snug until the storm is over.

Hey there!

1. As far as the CUNY system is concerned, we have class today. Absences will count the same as always, but seriously do not risk your lives if it gets too dangerous. Do the work, contact your professors, make every effort to keep up with your classes. If we do get cancelled, I can easily meet you on Skype to answer questions. Snow days are not breaks from doing the work, they are just safety precautions in terms of the commute.
2. I am not getting many journal entries at all, nor have most of you completed them. Just to remind you, they are counted as a part of your grade, so step up! If you need help with anything, tell me in class. I am glad to help!