Homework, Notes 9/21/10

Your assignments this week:

1. Read pp. 26-47 in Thinking with Type.

2. Out of the five variations of your new typographic character, choose the most beautiful glyph (drawing) and, if needed, revise it to perfection.

3. Create three posters using the revised character. Each poster must:

• have a final size of 10"x16" (or 16"x10"). The easiest way to accomplish this is to print on 11"x17" paper and trim off the edges.
• be in EITHER color or black & white.
• have three, and ONLY three, elements on it: 1. your new character itself, 2. the name of your new character, 3. A sentence or two that either gives the definition of your new character OR shows an example of how to use it in text.
• use only the typeface that matches your glyph for text content (i.e. if your best glyph was the Bodoni version the poster's type should be set only in Bodoni)

Suggestions for designing your poster:

• Use scale to create variety and visual interest
• Think about making the negative space interesting as well as the positive forms
• Move elements around and play with their rotation, position and alignment
• Try creating symmetry in one poster, and asymmetry or imbalance in the next

Good luck!