Task Design (or re-design) a book dust jacket for a book of your choice. It should be a book that you read and are familiar with its plot. Your design must reflect the content and tone/mood of the book and should be designed to entice people to buy and read […]
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Use a modular grid to arrange a text in as many ways as you can. By employing just one size of type, flush left only, you will construct a typographic hierarchy exclusively by means of spatial arrangement. Use this text: Common typographic disorders Various forms of dysfunction appear among populations […]
A type specimen is a promotional material for a typeface. It showcases the type design and demonstrates to designers how it would look in different sizes and arrangements. Check out examples of type specimens in the links below. For this assignment, design a type specimen flyer that promotes one typeface […]
Select a song or a short poem and reinforce its meaning typographically. Manipulate typographic properties, such as size, weight, style, alignment, leading, word spacing, and positioning. Pay particular attention to the placement of the text in the page, and to overall balance and flow. Use of imagery is optional but […]
Using the assigned text and images, design a double-page spread on a multiple-column grid of assigned proportions. The design should include text type, display type, heads, subheads, folios, illustrations, and captions. Follow the exact measurements here. Download text and images here. Download Type Specification Form. Submit a PDF (exported from […]
In this project you will design a magazine spread for an existing print magazine of your choice. You need a printed copy of the magazine or a PDF file of the magazine. You can also use one of the magazines that I collected here. Part 1: Research Inspect the design […]
Create a web announcement for a lecture series about contemporary design. Carefully consider the typographic hierarchy of the information presented. A viewer should be able to easily understand the calendar of events and to quickly learn who the main speakers are. The design must also convey the excitement of contemporary […]
You have a brilliant idea for a new magazine and you are preparing to pitch it to potential supporters. Write a proposal that outlines your plans for the magazine and design sample pages. The Proposal Write a proposal with the following information: Research and Content Inspect magazines of similar content […]
In this assignment we explore the formal qualities of letterforms and practice manipulating type in Adobe InDesign.
Purpose: to demonstrate a wide variety of ways to indicate paragraphs and to show how they affect the look and readability of the setting. Using the series of paragraphs below, create five (5) variations that treat the delineation between paragraphs differently. Create alternate ways of indicating new paragraphs, ranging from […]
