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Topics

• Thu: Shadows and perception exercise

Projects

• Mon: Final critique for Project 1
• Thu: Start Visual translation. Bring in objects. Begin sketches and light/shadow studies in class.

Reading

• 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)

• Color models
• Swatches
• Global Swatches
• Stroke attributes
• Variable width strokes

Drawing (~13 min. runtime)

• Pen tool
• Curvature tool
• Improving paths
• Pathfinder