Read:
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Download:
Over the next two weeks — during class time— you will be using the measurements pdf above and watching the following videos from Lynda.com and practicing the ”small but important details” on this non-graded/for practice Zodiac project (We will print your Zodiac months out the first day of class next quarter and show & share with each other):
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Watch:
An Overview:
(about 27 minutes)
What Good Text Type Looks Like
— A medium typeface
— Indents, spacing, fractions, and footnotes
— Quotation and other marks, lowercase numerals, and dashes
— Italics, ligatures, eclipses, small caps, parentheses, and the subhead
How to’s:
(about 28 minutes)
— Using the Glyphs panel — Quotes, apostrophes, and primes
— Em dashes and en dashes
— Spacing characters
— Elipsis
— Optical sizing
How to’s:
(about 18 minutes)
All of Chapter 6 OpenType Features
— Ligatures
— Fractions
— Numerals
— Contextual alternates
How to’s:
(about 3 minutes)
Body Text: Body text indentation and spacing
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Google Hang Out Crits:
Monday—For 5142:
9:00 am
Kamaria, Chelsea, Nicole
10:15 am
Anders, Tom, Melissa
11:30 am
Joe, Rod, Erika
12:45 pm
Hoa, Matilda, Jason
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Wednesday—For 5140:
9:00 am
Seth, Christy, Katie
10:15 am
John, An, Emily, Tressa
11:30 am
Danny, Ricardo, Hannah
12:45 pm
Shruti, Rami, Clayton, Maxine
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For peer-to-peer feedback: Reach out to a classmate for feedback via Slack, Google Hangouts, etc, or in person if you would like / live close.
Do:
1. Keep working on your album project.
2. Optional—self selection:
If you would like another round of feedback, send me a dm, I will make feedback groups for next week based on who would like it.
Printing for the album is no longer mandatory. Final deliverable will be a PDF file uploaded to dropbox.
Continue to watch the Lynda.com videos and working on the Zodiac assignment.
Feedback groups:
TBD
Do:
1. Finalize your design based off of feedback. Fix any of your microtype issues you see.
2. Create a walk through PDF with the following:
— Write a couple lines about the band/artist. E.g. Their name, what type of music they play.
— Mood Board
— The front cover of the album
— (the inside spread, if you have it)
— The back cover
— Both front and back cover (and inside spreads if you have them) including the dieline. (this is called a flat version)
— Optional: Inserts, Sleeves, PSD comp.
3. Include a link(s) for one (or two) song(s) from your artist's/band's album in your PDF file to sample songs.
Recommended Grid Books:
1. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers by Josef Müller-Brockmann
2. Layout Workbook A Real-World Guide To Building Pages In Graphic Design Layouat Workbook by Kristen Cullen
3. Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop by Timothy Samara
4. Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids (Design Essentials) by Beth Tondreau
5. Best Practices for Graphic Designers, Grids and Page Layouts: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Applying Page Design Principles by Amy Graver
Project 3 is due.
You will be uploading your PDF file to the dropbox link below by noon on Monday.
Lable your PDF like this: ClassroomNumber_FirstName_LastName.pdf
e.g.
5142_Jill_Vartenigian.pdf
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Dropbox Link: Click here to upload your album PDF
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At the beginning of next quarter we can walk around the room and view your album PDFs on your lap tops.
We’ll also be printing your Zodiac month and showing & sharing those.
Have a great break!
See you in the Spring.
Purchase:
Please purchase Kimberly Elam's book: Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type
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Bring:
Bring the following items to the first Type 2 class next quarter:
– Your Elam book
– Tracing paper
– Ruler
– Colored pencils or colored markers or colored crayons
– an issue of your favorite magazine (if you don’t have a favorite magazine, you can check out magazines from the public library or I can let you borrow one from the variety of magazines we have on hand at school.)
Recommended Grid Books:
1. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers by Josef Müller-Brockmann
2. Layout Workbook A Real-World Guide To Building Pages In Graphic Design Layouat Workbook by Kristen Cullen
3. Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop by Timothy Samara
4. Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids (Design Essentials) by Beth Tondreau
5. Best Practices for Graphic Designers, Grids and Page Layouts: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Applying Page Design Principles by Amy Graver
Project 3 is due.
You will be presenting your folding dummy, your 30 second song sound byte and your PDF file on the over head projector to the class.
Hand in your folding dummy and drop your PDF file into my drop folder.