WEEK 7: The week of May 14th

Project 2: Expressive typography, manuscript, hierarchical, and multi-grid practice project due. Class review of work.

BREAK

Samples will be shown for modular and linear grids.

In-class demonstration: Making modular grids.
Three InDesign techniques will be shown to generate modular grids.

Homework: Experimenting with Modular and/Or Linear Grids

The goal of this assignment will be to experiment with modular grids and/or linear grids in order to design a one sheet.

The final deliverable for this project will be due the week of June 11th. Your deliverable will include a printed, folding dummy of your design, a one page (NON CODED MOCK UP) micro-site, and a composite PDF which includes:

• Your sketches

• Your final design, reader spread by reader spread

• Your final design with your underlying grid structure visible.

• A one page microsite using a modular grid

Choose only one of the subjects for your design project.

Part 1: Review your audience and project specs. Read through the copy.

Part 2: Create a few paper folding dummies and block out the information for each spread in sketch form only on your folding dummies using modular and/or linear grids as the underlying structure for your design. Solve hierarchy, grouping, scale and position issues in sketch form.

Part 2: Choose your favorite layout sketch and bring it to the computer.

For next week: Bring in your all of your rough sketches. Print out your work-in-progress design — it doesn't have to look pretty/perfect at this point. We'll have lab time to work on it during class next week.

Files for Project 3:

Click here to choose one of the 4 given topics.
Project 3

Required reading:

The Grid (pdf)
Eight tips for combining typefaces (adobe site)
Four techiques for combining fonts (site)

Recommended reading:

Cullen 52–71, Samara p 33–70 (Sample grids and projects)
Seven typographic resources, and one type joke (site)
Just my type — A collection of font pairings from Typekit (site)

Cullen 72–115, Samara p 71–90
Choosing Typefaces 1 (pdf)
Choosing Typefaces 2 (Especially Choosing Typefaces 2) (pdf)
Choosing Typefaces 3 (pdf)

Check out The Big Book of Font Combinations (PDF file) from Jill's Files Lessons Folder.

“How To” files:

Typography skills:
Chapter 5: Using Find/Change to clean up text (Lynda.com)

Look at these sites:

Designspiration
Graphis
Typetoken