September 15, 2022

Publication Design

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ARTS610 // Principles of Typography The final project in this course is for students to create a publication design. This can be a printed piece or a digital piece (although in Spring 2020 we focused on digital work because of the pandemic). Students were able to envision whatever kind of publication design they wanted (a […]

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September 9, 2022

Tangible Typeface

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ARTS610 // Principles of Typography How might designers use found objects and physical materials to create a cohesive and visually appealing typeface?  PROCESS: Students chose physical objects or materials to construct a typeface, using photography to capture the letterforms. They brainstormed ideas, then chose their top three to conduct tests, and then created a full […]

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September 7, 2022

Lettermarks

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ARTS610 // Principles of Typography Students are assigned a random typeface from Google Fonts. They visually analyze a grid of all the letterforms in the font, and then experiment with different ways to compose the three letterforms into a composition by moving the letters around, playing with scale and position. Students created at least two […]

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May 1, 2022

Truth and Typography Poster designs

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ARTS610 // Principles of Typography For this project fifteen students in ARTS 610 Principles of Typography researched, examined, and analyzed poster designs—both historic and current examples—and then created or chose a message connected to their own ideas about truth or the depiction of truth. Students used these messages to design the posters you see here. This […]

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