Typography & Visual Design

georgia's typeface (still have to clean up a few of them!)

Megan's New Alpha (missing a few letters-they are coming)

Unfortunately I'm traveling and don't have the ability to scan my final numbers and characters that I was going to show everyone on saturday so I photographed them. I know its a little gray but they are consistent with the designs of my other letter forms. What I did differently since last week was live trace the letterforms and screw applique to look more digital when compared to my hand drawn letters. I played with the tracing options of the screw to keep some of the hand sketched quality but I was unfortunately unable to keep the value of the letterforms once I made them digital letters. My whole file is quite large so I'm posting my A-F jpg so you can see the difference between this week and last week. Let me know what you think and if you'd like me to post my whole hand drawn and digital alphabet. I can post better images on sunday.

Typeface

The theme here is letter existing from metal pieces. Like the
I- I showed in class which was a metal piece left behind... I
looked for other metal parts, rusty one, that look like letters.
For those for which I found no metal part I combined pieces, I know
they all look very different from each other- but thats okay.
The point is that its rusty industrial metal parts.
These are just the photographs trimmed and darkened then
live traced. If you view it up close on some you can even see the
original piece and it shape.

noelis.

This Week's Assignment

hi all- sorry about disappearing this past weekend. a dear friend got in some legal trouble and needed emergency help. we didn't get to look at type-specimen examples. so your assignment this week is to finish all the characters of your typeface (incl. numbers and punctuation), and POST IMAGES OF IT HERE so i can look at it from abroad. failure to post images of your completed typeface will equal an incomplete for this assignment.

see you next week,
N

Those who showed up for the makeup class

We waited until 11:30 and left because we assumed you weren't coming. Hope everything is alright.

Emergency Cancellation of Make-up Class

hi all

i'm so sorry but due to an emergency i am not able to make it to the make-up class.

i will keep you all posted on what this means for the coming week. if any of you gets this today please call my cellphone at 917 622 1101.

best,
noah

this is pretty cute

Homework, Notes, 10/8/08, Also: makeup class

small class last this past wednesday... but those who showed are doing a great job.

your assignment:

continue working on your fonts and complete at least one case of the alphabet (upper, lower or mixed case), as well as all the numerals (0-9) and the following punctuation characters:

! ? . , " " ' ' & ( ) @ /

[the quotes and double quotes above are opening and closing quotes- not sure if it's showing in your browsers]

we are meeting in our regular class space on saturday 10/11 at 11am. it will be a shortened class.

see you then.