Week 3 Day 1 - Tuesday, Sept 4 - Homework

1. Choose at least two fonts you intend to use in your typographic self portrait. Style and visual aesthetic of fonts should be characteristic of your personality and take into consideration the ideas introduced in the typography lecture from class today.

Be ready to show font choices and 5 face sketches to instructor by start of next class, Wednesday, Sept 6, 12:30pm.


Begin creating initial Layout Comps for Project 1. Based on advice and critique of concept ideas and portrait sketches, determine which sketch best captures your personality and the overall tone you wish to strengthen in defining yourself in a typographic self portrait. Generate basic typographic elements in a tabloid paper sized layout in Illustrator.

Keep in mind the overall focus of the project is to examine typographic letterforms that will illustrate multi-facets of yourself.

How do the lines, shapes, style of your letterforms, placement of letterforms, composition, black-white contrast tell the story about your personality? Don't be afraid to think metaphorically and conceptually. Also focus on the following overall project objectives:

+ To create an awareness of the image of typography.
+ To explore positive and negative space relationships in a design composition.
+ To experiment with the design element value in a black-and-white composition.