Sunday, May 15th, 2011...5:34 pm
computer typography
computer typography should really be called advanced typography because we do a lot more than just working with type on the computers. i think i actually hand-rendered more type in this class than i did in basic typography.
my type stills definitely improved in this course. i am much better at working with type. i’ve even gotten pretty good at recognizing typefaces! this is the class that i had the most projects in, but they were all so diverse and so much fun!
we designed expressive posters (both computer done and hand made), beverage packaging, magazine layouts, japanese glyphs and so much more. by far my favorite projects involved hand rendering. i love drawing and creating letters is so much like creating forms and shapes (well- in reality that’s what it is. a letter is really just a series of lines or shapes). i have so much fun doing it because there are no limits! typefaces have predetermined sizes/heights/widths and you can only do so much to change that without altering the typeface itself. by hand… well, the sky’s the limit. even just creating the same letter with different materials (pen, paint, ink, etc) can create such a different effect.
for our last project we were able to do anything we wanted that included experimenting with type. i decided (after a lot of indecisive sketches) to create three large letters of characters we don’t use in the english language and then create the shapes using words that have that character. i know that’s kind of hard to visualize, but i love the way it came out. i used a eñe for spanish, a ç for french/portuguese/catalan and an ezsett β for german. i am planning on framing them and hanging them up in my new apartment because i love them that much!!