COMD2327 – Week5
Agenda
Homework DUE
- Daily travels: please find one example of each and post to your ePortfolio page and send me the link to the comments section on OpenLab: openlab.citytech.cuny.edu
-> Text runaround or text wrap
-> Drop Cap
-> Small Cap - Complete Assignment#2 and Assignment#3 (I will collect them via dropbox end of class)
Lecture
- Here is a great resource for everything you need to know about type: http://www.thinkingwithtype.com by Ellen Lupton
- Continue to look at examples in magazines and newspapers
Handouts
Lab
- Time to work on Assignment 2, 3 and 4
Homework
- Please read: http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/contents/grid/
- Daily travels: please find one example of each and post to your ePortfolio page and send me the link to the comments section on OpenLab:
-> Loose leading
-> Solid leading
-> A pull-quote - Work on Assignment#4 See handout above.
Here are the list of stories to go with exercises #11-15:
11. Samantha Rosato’s Cropsey Maniac
12. Alexis Vega Velez’s Clown Statue
13. Kamilah Collins’ Walt Disney
14. Jeremy S. Renner’s Abandoned Mental Hospital
15. Vanessa Ramirez The Jersey Devil
COMD2327 – Week4
Agenda
Homework DUE:
- In your daily travels over the course of the week take 3 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 ePortfolio page and send me the link to the comments section on OpenLab
Lecture
- Review week 3 terms
- Tracking
- Kerning: http://type.method.ac/
- Text Wrap: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/how-to/wrap-text-objects.html
- Drop Cap: http://www.dailydropcap.com/
- Small Caps: http://practicaltypography.com/small-caps.html
- Look at examples in magazines and newspapers
In Class
- Work on Calendar Assignment#2 (due Week 4) See handout from last week.
Here are the list of stories to go with exercises #1-5:
- Nicole Harripersad “Bloody Mary”
- Alana Langyel “A California Ghost Story” or Gennessy Palma “La Llorona”
- Giselle Rodriguez “The Suicidal Boyfriend” or “Well to Hell”
- Clarissa Blanchette “The Handshake”
- Luis Lopez “Daedalus Wings”
Stories are posted in dropbox folder – week3
Handouts
- COMD2327-Assignment#4
- Work on Assignment#3 (due Week 5) See handout above.
Here are the list of stories to go with exercises #6-10:
6. Michael Robinson’s The Russian Sleep Experiment
7. Darius Murray’s Paul Bunyan Folktale
8. Cerena Reid’s Among the Rocks
9. Sinead O’Mahony The Binding of Fenrir
10. Rafael Lopez’s The Tunnel
Homework
- Daily travels: please find one example of each and post to your ePortfolio page and send me the link to the comments section on OpenLab
-> Text runaround or text wrap
-> Drop Cap
-> Small Cap - Complete Assignment#2 and Assignment#3 (I will collect #3 end of class next week)
COMD2327 – Week3
Agenda
- Homework DUE – everyone was supposed to bring in interesting magazine and/or newspaper layout for review
- Layout calendar (InDesign)
- Make sure your ‘urban legend’ essay is posted into the class dropbox folder. Email me if you can not access.
- Post a project from your last semester in Type&Media to your ePortfolio and add the link to the discussion on OpenLab:
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
- Alignment issues: Justified/ Forced Justified
- Widows, orphans and rivers
Handouts
- See assignment from week1
- COMD2327-Assignment#2
- COMD2327Week3-Terms
Homework
- In your daily travels over the course of the week take 3 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 ePortfolio page and send me the link to the comments section of week3 of this blog.
- Work on Assignment#2 (due Week 4) See handout above.
Here are the list of stories to go with exercises #1-5:
- Nicole Harripersad “Bloody Mary”
- Alana Langyel “A California Ghost Story” or Gennessy Palma “La Llorona”
- Giselle Rodriguez “The Suicidal Boyfriend” or “Well to Hell”
- Clarissa Blanchette “The Handshake”
- Luis Lopez “Daedalus Wings”
Stories are posted in dropbox folder – week3
COMD2327 – Week2
Agenda
- Sign-up for Openlab and this blog ->
- Type families
- Anatomy of a Typeface
- Homework DUE – Urban Legend – Please print out and I will also collect via dropbox
- ePortfolio on the Openlab – post a final project from your COMD1167 class and link to this blog
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:
COMD2327-Type Classifications
Homework
- Layout calendar (InDesign)
- Make sure your ‘urban legend’ essay is posted into the class dropbox folder. Email me if you can not access.
- Bring in a magazine or newspaper that you think is well designed for our next class meeting.
- Post a project from your last semester in Type&Media to your ePortfolio and add the link to the discussion on OpenLab:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/comd2327-type-ii-s2017/forum/topic/post-one-project-from-comd1167/#post-41815
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 – Type II
Welcome!
Here you will find regular postings for handouts given in-class. Please ‘sign-up’ to receive email updates.
Course Description
Introduces a variety of basic layouts and formats, building technical and practical fluency in setting and working with type for both print and screen. This course further explores topics learned in COMD 1167 Type and Media, such as typeface selection and the use of the typographical grids. Problem-solving for most common typographical problems is discussed.
Prerequisite: COMD 1167 Equivalent to old course ADV 1217
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!
