During our last class today at the studio the students got their hands dirty carving alphabet letters out of potato halves then inking them up and stamping their own alphabet.
For our last class the students designed a poster using our wood and metal type, inked up the press and printed their own posters. Here is the poster from Typography 2012.
For the last class the students made typographic manifestos.
Found type by my student Jolie Maya-Altshuler at the NYU library.
The homework assignment that was due this week was TYPOGRAPHIC CALENDARS!
The size and typeface choice was open ended. The students did fantastic work, here is what they brought in today.
Samantha Adler
Jolie Maya Altshuler
Brittney Bell
George Brooks
Margaret Franks
Perri Hofmann
Seung Woo Kim
Catherine Lee
Jai Yoon Lee
Jessica Ng
Michelle Peralta
Laura Stephenson
Rachel Williams
Today in class we talked about sans-serif typefaces. To prepare for their upcoming typographic manifesto assignment the students designed boxing posters. The students were only allowed to use sans-serif typefaces, they made up their own competitors, dates, sponsors, etc.
Yo found these today while packing up. I made this postcard while I was working at George magazine and sent a copy to Yo and Francesca at the studio! I still have the stencils that I used to make the letters on this card and so much of what I do today still looks like this . . .
Ok, I am officially breathless. I just discovered the site, presentandcorrect.com through the Mrs. Easton blog. I don’t know about you but I’ve always loved office and desk supplies.
Looking at the dioramas with my kids I immediately noticed the beautiful lettering in front of each taxidermied setting. Check out this beautiful capital R . . .
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