GDES-270 spring 2022 / David Ramos, American University Design
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Typography exercise
Monday, February 07 / Thursday, February 10
Final crit for Flags / Start Visual translation
In class (Monday)
- Typographic variations exercise
- From class: Type slides
Projects
- Thursday: Final critique for Flags
- Thursday: Start Visual translation
Reading (for Thursday)
- Vexillology Revisited: Fixing the Worst Civic Flag Designs in America
- (Optional) Look at the Flags of the World site
- Ellen Lupton, Thinking with Type, Letter (size, scale, type classficiations, type families, caps and small caps, and mixing types) and Text (tracking, line spacing, and alignment)
- Work through the Bézier Game, which will help you gain control of the pen tool and drawing curves.
- Rhythym and Balance (NB2 48–)
- Hierarchy (NB2 128–)
Tech demos
Color and strokes (~20 min. runtime)
Drawing (~13 min. runtime)