Look! Our book on Luigi Ghirri is next to this beautiful book by Laurie Simmons!
We saw this today in the window of 192 Books on 10th Ave. Such a nice bookstore.
Yesterday in class we all admired Jessica’s handwriting and today while trolling through the swiss-miss blog found a link to . . . . typographer’s handwriting!
http://www.themaninblue.com/articles/handwritten_typographers/
Here is the Typography class wall with work from my fantastic students!
The work here is from four different assignments: the type specimen page assignment, the visual poetry assignment, the Bill of Rights assignment, and the alphabet book assignment. Two students who could not make it to class today sent in pdfs of their books and those are in the post below. Congratulations to my students for creating such amazing work!
Sketches by Eduilson Wessler Coan. myfonts.com
In this assignment the students were given the text of the Bill of Rights. They had to pick a set of two amendments and reset the type. This week we talked about paragraph details: flush left, flush right, justified, centered, etc. We also talked about paragraph indents and drop caps and “ornaments” or dingbats. The typefaces we focused on this week were Baskerville and Caslon. The students chose one of these typefaces and reset portions of the Bill of Rights using the above tools plus what we talked about last week which was point size, leading, kerning and tracking. Below are the beautiful results!
Philippe Dwyer’s alphabet book
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Alphabet-Book/5013409
Salley Mavor’s alphabet book
http://weefolkstudio.com/2011/01/27/alphabet-book/
Aaron Groh’s alphabet book pages
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Alphabet-Book-for-Designers/283650
Accordion fold alphabet book by Donnie Amin
http://donnieamin.com/The-Little-Alphabet-Book
How beautiful is this cover???
Diller Scofidio + Renfro are the architects behind the renovation of Lincoln Center and have put out a book, Lincoln Center Inside Out: An Architectural Account, documenting the transforming space.
http://art.lincolncenter.org/shop-3/books/liz-diller/
As a homework assignment in my Typography class the students were each given a different typeface. They had to research each typeface and then create a “Type Specimen Sheet” to advertise their font. Below are the fantastic results!
For this assignment the students in my Typography class were each given the poem, maggie and milly and molly and may by E. E. Cummings. The goal of this assignment was to use one font, Adobe Garamond, and variations in point size, leading and kerning to “design” the poem in an E.E. Cummings-like manner.
Below are the results!
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