Sep 26, 2008

Choosing Type from ilovetypography.com

Guideline One: honor content

This, of course, should be every typographer’s mantra. In fact good typographers, most likely won’t even have to consciously think about this—it’s instinctual.

[typography] is a craft by which the meanings of text (or its absence of meaning) can be clarified, honored and shared….
—Robert Bringhurst

It’s worth mentioning here that these principles are equally applicable to any medium. Some of my favourite typefaces look dreadful on screen; and even good typefaces like Georgia or Verdana, designed especially for the screen, often look at best mediocre on paper. Choosing type for the web is easier owing to fewer choices; however, that’s beginning to change. We now have sIFR and ‘web fonts’, so it’s all the more important to think carefully about the type we use. Is Times/Times New Roman—narrow set and designed for narrow columns—really appropriate for long-line extended text on screen? Read More....

Favorite typeface from Typographica


Here is a link!!!

Sep 24, 2008

Type Specimen Book: examples 4

Please take a look and analysis them. Why do they look good? and how you are going to do your work look good like these.













Sep 16, 2008

Which typeface should I pick?

Please take a look the favorite typefaces from Typoblogger

The Fall 2008 Favorite Typefaces List:
bureau
agency fb, the thin ones; akkurat, the thin ones; akkurat mono; batarde; bello; bodoni BE; bodoni twenty six; bookman jf swash; cholla slab; cochin black italic (small); numbers; ehmcke; faux cra; filosophia; frys baskerville; garaje; garamond three/3; GEronto; gothic 720; gravur cond thin; ironmonger; caslon 224; veljovic; kettler; knockout; justice; mono; letter gothic; linoscript; meta mono; vectrex; normetica; perpetua; plantin; radio; simple; spira; sputnik; stymie; vineyard; cg poster bodoni

SERIFS:
Modern no 20, Firmin Didot, ClarendonBT, Belizio, Caecilia, Caslon, Cloister Open Face, Cooper Black (looks 70's), Mrs Eaves, Miller Display, Garamond (italian, american), Geometric Slab 703BT, Giza, Carousel, ITC Caslon 224, Archer, Aachen, Big Caslon, Caslon, El Dorado Text and Display, Farnham, Poster Bodoni, ITC Grouch, Century Expanded, Bell MT, and Ziggurat.

SANS SERIFS:
Locator, DIN, Foundry Gridnik, Knockout, Titling Gothic, Futura, Gotham, BTakzidenz Grotesk, Franklin Gothic, Helvetica Neue, Neutra Face, Univers, Bureau Grotesk, Type1451, Avant Garde, Bryant, Calvert, Helvetica, Interstate, Sauna, and Smokler.

OTHER TYPE THAT IS GOOD/FUN/INTERESTING:
Fling, Fig, Engravers, FindReplace, Restraint (very ornamental type by Marian Bantjes), English Script, Bickham Script Pro, Woodtype (for that turn of the century look of posters), Poplar, Woodtype ornaments, FF Dingbats, Hot Metal Borders, Champion (heavy poster look, used by Paula Sher a lot), Communication (dingbat icons), Missionary, Cottonwood, Edwardian Script, Regaliz, and Vineta.

News: Alternatives to Helvetica

By Fontfeed

Helvetica is a classic. Helvetica is played out. Each of these statements is true to an extent. The world’s most recognizable typeface will soon star in a new film that documents both its omnipresence and its timelessness.

There are many reasons why Helvetica is so widespread. The most obvious being that a few weights have been bundled with the Mac OS for years. It is arguably the most respectable of the “default” fonts. But it’s also used because it’s a safe, neutral choice. For many purposes, typography is more about content than style. Fans of Beatrice Warde will tell you that typographers should communicate without distraction. Helvetica, with its simple, unadorned forms, is the perfect crystal goblet. Even its ubiquity contributes to its neutrality — letters so common they become invisible....Read More

Sep 15, 2008

Type Specimen Book: examples 2

It depends how you define your type specimen book, poster or whatever media.
Just keep in your mind

Be experimental!!!

Be Innovative!!!

Be your self!!!
Be your style!!!

Herb Lubalin's works

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Type Specimen Book: examples 1

More links for inspiration
TypoBlogger
FFFFound

Please download this one to see standard sample!!!
David Berlow Type Specimens


font foundries

Fontshop
Ourtype
Typeforyou
vllg
underware
Hoefler&frere-Jones
lineto


More layouts style inspiration








First project: Type Specimen Book

Timeline:
1) first week comp, 9.22
2) second week tight comp, 9.29
3) third week final 10.6

Specs:
1) choose twelve typefaces not found on your computer
2) design a sixteen page signature using those twelve typefaces
3) print to size (you may choose the size)
4) bind

Research:
1) purchase ellen lupton’s book “thinking with type” and read it!
2) thorough understanding and application of the first two chapters, “letter” and
“text” due 9.22.
3) here’s a link to some of her students’ projects:
i. http://www.papress.com/thinkingwithtype/teachers/type_spec_
project.htm

ii. go there. download her students’ pdfs. have a look.

Process:
1) design a sixteen page signature using twelve typefaces not found on your
computer.
2) choose three serif display faces, three sans serif display faces, three serif text
faces, three sans serif text faces.
3) use a text from a short story, part of a novel, long poem, or other text of your
choice.
4) set (and kern properly) display faces and text blocks
5) be inventive with the form and binding of your signature

Examples:
1) typographia 2) ellen lupton student work
3) yutt wattanapanich 4) ramon tejeda
5) herb lubalin 6) babylonia talmud
7) alice in wonderland


Welcome to Fall'08; Course requirements

Welcome everyone, here this is course requirements

INTERMEDIATE DESIGN
Fall 2008
genevieve williams
egenevievewilliams@gmail.com
TA: yutt wattanapanich
wattanapanich@gmail.com
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Intermediate course requirements:
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in this course you will receive a letter grade based on:

1) your ability to present your projects logically and concisely, both visually and orally.
a. you will design and use a template (name, date, client, typefaces used keep it subtle) for presenting your work
b. bring work printed to size (you may print b&w for initial crits) to class
for critiques
c. be prepared to make a three to five minute oral presentation of your
work each week
2) the quality (and quantity) of your work both technical and conceptual
3) your participation in critiques
4) your blog as representative of your ongoing participation in the course
5) your perceived (by me) aptitude/skills/talent and whether your work reflects your best efforts
6) your improvement during the course
7) your attitude in class
*no absences without a doctor’s note
*if you come to class without work, you will be marked absent
*after three absences you will be dropped from the course
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projects expected for this course semester:
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1) type specimen book, final due 10.6
2) textured type book
3) information graphic
4) literary quotes project
5) transform existing tool project
6) process book

Any Questions please contact Your TA