Books and things on type history

Lewis Black - 20th Century Type

Robert Bringhurst - The Elements of Typographic Style

Johan Hammarstrom - The Typograph

Ellen Lupton - Thinking With Type

Typography Timeline

this is a website/timeline that has some of the most important milestones in typography evolution starting with first cave paintings and ending with web fonts development.

in the same time it contains some of the important historic events that were taking place during that time... it's quite interesting to see the relationship between typography and history through the ages...

http://www.counterspace.us/typography/timeline/

SO YOU NEED A TYPEFACE?

This cracks me up every time I look at it... enjoy!

PLEASE REMOVE WORD VERIFICATION!

Here is how to do it in Blogger:

1. Go to your Dashboard and click on “Settings”.

2. Next click on “Comments”.

3. Scroll down until you see “Show word verification for comments?” and click “No”.

Inspi for Assignment 1

So here's some swipe of what people have done in previous years... as you see the form of the visual response varies vastly... so please do not contain your creativity within a poster or some such. Surprise us and yourself!

Mariya Campwala

Nick Misani

Ledi Lalaj-Editorial spreads

Donghee Choo- posters as a response to the NYT articles

Nicole M. Rincon- experimental typography as a response to the NYT articles.

(if you look close into the delicate line work, you could see the words)

Kristie Bailey- 3D object as a response to the NYT articles.

(Kristie created a maze to keep the mind sharp, one of the methods Arakawa advocated to slow the aging process. She used foam for her 3D object.)

Jane Youn- book covers as a response to the NYT articles.

Yours truly- advertising campaign as a response to the NYT articles.

Plus another advertising poster printed on acetate laid over a subway map.

Our fave type foundries

Hoefler&Frere Jones

Lineto

Emigre

ASSIGNMENT 1: The New York Times responses

Choose ten articles from tomorrow’s Tuesday, September 20, 2011, The New York Times, broadsheet (i.e. the printed paper; you may refer to the online version as well) and respond in graphic form. All graphic forms are acceptable.

Objectives:
1) your interests as determined by your choice of articles.
2) your particular contextual orientation as determined by article choices and responses.
3) your inventiveness with responses.
4) your design skills.
5) your technical and hand skills.

Process:
1) Choose your articles.
2) Read the articles and do extensive research on the topics.
3) Pick a crucial sentence from each article.
4) Figure out appropriate visual direction for each individual response.
5) Create numerous variations for each.
6) You are free to pick as many formats for this assignmnet as you want or stick to one if appropriate.

You are expected to have 10 finished pieces done and be ready to present by next class. You may bring in previous drafts if you find it necessary or relevant for discussion. Please post the progress on your personal blog and comment on each other’s work.

FOR INSPIRATION PLEASE REFER TO:
The Editorial Design class blog: http://editdesign101.blogspot.com/
AIGA design archives: http://designarchives.aiga.org/#/home
The class blog: http://intermediatewithgen.blogspot.com/
(more can be found on the students blogs from previous years).

Hello and welcome Fall 2011 class!

This is our class blog where you will be able to keep up with the class assignments, along with sharing helpful information and follow what your classmates are up to.

To the right you can find links to blogs of all your classmates.

Genevieve's and my contact information could be found on the right as well.

Please create a blog for yourself and email the link to me (Olga) as soon as you can.


Looking forward to a very productive and fun semester!

Cheers,
Olga

9/11 remembered

Photo essay: Where children sleep

Recently, the charitable organization Save the Children asked documentary photographer James Mollison to come up with an idea to get people thinking about the rights of children around the world. What he came up with was an unusual, but powerful project: a photo essay of more than 200 children and their bedrooms, called "Where Children Sleep."

"I found myself thinking about my bedroom: how significant it was during my childhood, and how it reflected what I had and who I was," Mollison, who was born in Kenya, writes. "It occurred to me that a way to address some of the complex situations and social issues affecting children would be to look at the bedrooms of children in all kinds of different circumstances." The book has sold out since its initial printing last year, and Mollison says his publisher intends to reprint it later this year.

Mollison photographed the child's bedroom and the child separately, juxtaposing the two photos. You can check out some of the photos from the book, below.

Four-year-old Kaya lives in Tokyo, where her mother spends $1,000 per month on her wardrobe:

A Romanian four-year-old living outside Rome, Italy with his undocumented family:

A 7-year-old Nepalese girl who works in a quarry and lives in a one-room home with her parents and siblings:

Alyssa lives with her family in Harlan County, Kentucky:

Eight-year-old Ahkohxet lives with his tribe in the Amazon basin in Brazil:

Nine-year-old Dong lives with his family in Yunnan, China:

Nine-year-old Tzvika lives in the West Bank, in a gated community of 36,000 Orthodox Jews:

Nine-year-old Jamie lives with his family on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan:

Eleven-year-old Thais lives in the City of God, Brazil and wants to be a model:

Kana, 16, lives in Tokyo: