COMD2327 – Week4
Agenda
- Homework DUE : 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 details posted week3.
- Make sure your ‘final – edited’ Urban Legend is in the week3 folder in dropbox.
Lecture
- Review week 3 terms.
- Continue to look at examples in magazines and newspapers
Handouts
Lab
- Edit Urban Legend based on feedback and save into the week3 folder in dropbox
- Time to work on Assignment 3 and 4
Homework
- Work on Assignment#4 (due Week 5) See handout above.
Here are the list of stories to go with exercises #6-10:
6. Jack and the Beanstalk by Doreen Wright
7. Allegory of the Cave by Aliver Canaria
8. The Backseat Murder by Albert Bernal
9. The Story of the Arcade Underdog by Paul Paulino
10. The Monkey Paw by Xiaocen Jiao
Edited stories based on comments you received should be saved into dropbox folder – week3. Please do so immediately if you have not already.
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
COMD2327 – Week2
Agenda
- Sign-up for Openlab
- Type families
- Anatomy of a Typeface
- Homework DUE – Please print out and I will also collect via dropbox
Handouts
Lecture
InDesign Basics
- Menu overview/ workspace/ pallets
- Setting up document: size, measurements, columns, bleeds
- Rulers and grids
- Inches, points, picas
- Placing text
- Dummy text or latin text
- Text threading
- Basic formatting of text
Here is a copy of the in-class presentation:
ADV1160 Type Classifications
Homework
We do not meet next week. Our next class is 9/17/15
- Finish CompingType exercise.
- Go see Paul Rand exhibit at Museum of the City of New York: www.mcny.org
(*note they try to charge you entrance – but it’s pay as you wish).
1220 5th Ave, New York, NY - Bring in a magazine or newspaper that you think is well designed for our next class meeting.
COMD2327 – Week1
Welcome to the first class of the semester!
Agenda
- Introduction to the course
- Course Objectives
- Class introductions
- ReadThis
Handouts
Lecture
InDesign Basics
- Menu overview/ workspace/ pallets
- Setting up document: size, measurements, columns, bleeds
- Rulers and grids
- Inches, points, picas
- Placing text
- Dummy text or latin text
- Text threading
- Basic formatting of text
Resources
- www.commarts.com
- www.aiga.com
- www.tdc.org
- www.adcglobal.org
Homework
- Bring in a story based on an Urban Legend, a Myth or a Folktale. Your story should be three paragraphs long (with a word count around 300 words). You can also check out this website to browse through a number of stories and see if you come across one that you like: http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/urban-legends
- Here are two examples from former students:
1. BloodyMary
2. TheGhostFestival
COMD2327 – Type2
Welcome to COMD2327 – Type 2
Here you will find regular postings for handouts given in-class. Please ‘sign-up’ to receive email updates.
Course Description
This course explores creative solutions to typographical problems. Principles of typeface selection and how type communicates are emphasized. Using typographical grids, and achieving maximum results through the use of type are the focus of this class. We will use InDesign, and some of the features of InDesign to help us execute our work.
Objectives:
- Review of the five main families of type and their visual characteristics (Old Style, Transitional, Modern, Egyptian (also know as Slab Serif) and San Serif)
- Review the anatomy of type: baseline, meanline, capline, serifs, etc
- Review and understand leading, tracking, kerning, alignment and best typographic practices
- Identify and resolve typographical problems such as orphans, widows, type color, and rivers
- Understand how to make good typographical choices including typeface, variations of type, size, alignment, and column width, among others
- Create a variety of projects with an emphasis on type
- Use InDesign to create our designs
- Use Adobe DPS (InDesign) to publish to the ipad
- Work with grids and understand visual organization
- Understand the principles of visual hierarchy
- Use type effectively!
