Assignment 10!

For the next project, you will use a specific typeface, illustrating a concept.  You can only use letters to solve this problem.  You must make 3 sketches for each problem, making a total of 18 sketches.  Your sketches should utilize the style of the typeface.

These are the problems:

For inspiration, visit this site for ideas on composition (the layout or design of the letters.)

Assignment 9-Figure ground reversal

Using one or more letters, create a figure/ground design.  The letters may touch each other, be cropped off the page, overlap and/or touch the edges of the page.  (Be sure to make sketches first)

Assignment 8 (Shape of Space)

As Massimo Vignelli said, typography is the space around the letters.  In this project:

1. Place tracing paper over the handout Ms. Copeland gives you and using a soft pencil or felt tip pen, fill in the spaces with the letters.  
2. Go back to the computer, select a typeface and fill in the negative space again, but this time using illustrator. 
3. After completing the alphabet, delete the actual letters.  
4.  Create a sentence using just the negative space of the letters.     

Typography Unit Begins!

For your first project (Assignment 7), you're going to create a pattern out of type.

1. Look up the typography of Herb Lubalin, Bob Farber, and Ed Benguiat where they have stacked type in various formats.
2. Copy 3 of their typographic compositions in your sketchbook (yeah, you should have one by now)
3. On Illustrator, design one word using narrow inter-letter spacing (kearning) – Be sure to choose a word that begins and ends with the same letter.  (I will show you how to do this.)
4. Vertically flip the word over and stack them below the original. 
5.  Repeat the flipping as many times to fill a tabloid sized document (11x17)-make sure to form dynamic positive and negative stack of shapes.

Pictograms

Find or take a photograph and reduce the image down to its most elemental forms. These simplifications are known as pictographs, which are graphic symbols that represent an idea or concept. Create 12 different pictograms in your sketchbook, then take your 4 best and create them in Illustrator.  

View:
http://www.a-website.org/design/pictohistory/index.html
http://www.a-website.org/design/pictohistory/standard.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictogram