Jun 9, 2009

Project One_ Type Specimen Book or Poster

Time line:
1. First week tight comp, Jun 9
2. Second week Final Jun 16

Specs:
1. Choose twelve typefaces not found on your computer
(Three serif display face, three sans serif display faces, three serif text faces, three sans serif text faces)
2. Use a text from a short story, part of novel, long poem or other text of your choice.
3.Design a sixteen page signature using those twelve typefaces
4. Be inventive with your design (Need something difference than the examples)
4. Print to size (you may choose the size)
5. Bind it.

Research:
1. Purchase Ellen Lupton's book "Thinking with Type" and read it!!!
You can find it on amazon, strand, barnes and noble...


2. Read the first two chapters, "Letter" and "Text" due Jun 13
3. Here are the examples

- David Berlow's Type Specimen book http://www.fontbureau.com/books/dbspecimens



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