COMD2327 – Week3
Agenda
- Homework DUE – Review magazines and newspapers that everyone was supposed to bring in
- Save CompingType exercise as a PDF with crop marks and your name on it, into the class dropbox folder: “Week2-CompingExercise”
- Thoughts on Paul Rand exhibit?
Lecture
- Become a member of class Openlab page: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/comd2327-type2-fa2015/
- Type families – review
- Anatomy of a Typeface – review
Handouts
- See assignment from week1: COMD2327Project1-Overview
- COMD2327-Assignment#3
- COMD2327Week3-Terms
Lab
- Edit ‘Urban Legend’ based on feedback
- Work on Assignment 3
Homework
- In your daily travels over the course of the week take 6 photographs. Each photo should show one example of a bad use of type based on the week3 handout of terms (see above). So for example find an example of bad kerning. Or an example of a neglected widow in some body copy. Please post image with caption to your Openlab page and send me the link to the comments section of week3 of this blog.
- Work on Assignment#3 (due Week 5) See handout above.
Here are the list of stories to go with exercises #1-5:
- The Old Woman by Noura Mahmoud
- Five Chinese Brothers by Jeremy Kao
- Little Red’s Betrayal by Yamile Bonifacio
- Tata Duende by Dyjhaun Jenkins
- Daedalus Wings by Luis Lopez
Stories are posted in dropbox folder – week3
