Agenda

Homework DUE

• I am still missing several of your ‘final – edited’ Urban Legend story. It MUST be saved in the week3 folder in dropbox ASAP.
• 6 photographs (if I did not get yours from last week please post). Each photo should show one example of a bad use of type based on the week2 and week3 definition of terms handouts. For example find an example of bad kerning. Or an example of a neglected widow in some body copy. Please post image with caption to your Openlab page and send me the link to the comments section of week3 of this blog.
• Type booklet assignments #4.

Lecture

• Here is a great resource for everything you need to know about type: http://www.thinkingwithtype.com by Ellen Lupton
• Continue to look at examples in magazines and newspapers

Handouts

• COMD2327-Assignment#5

Lab

• Time to work on Assignment 3, 4 and 5

Homework

• Please read: http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/contents/grid/
• Work on Assignment#5 See handout above.
  Here are the list of stories to go with exercises #11-15:
  11. Mulan by Shanyia Knibbs
  12. Dancing With the Devil by Charlene Chen
  13. The Five Chinese Brothers by Hailey Kohler
  14. The Story of Helios by Angel Caquias
  15. The Crow and the Pitcher by Alexander Johnson

Edited stories based on comments you received should be saved into dropbox folder – week3. Please do so immediately if you have not already.

Agenda

• Homework DUE : 6 photographs. Each photo should show one example of a bad use of type based on the week3 handout of terms (see above). So for example find an example of bad kerning. Or an example of a neglected widow in some body copy. Please post image with caption to your Openlab page and send me the link to the comments section of week3 of this blog.
• Work on Assignment#3 (due Week 5) See details posted week3.
• Make sure your ‘final – edited’ Urban Legend is in the week3 folder in dropbox.

Lecture

• Review week 3 terms.
• Continue to look at examples in magazines and newspapers

Handouts

• COMD2327-Assignment#4
  

Lab

• Edit Urban Legend based on feedback and save into the week3 folder in dropbox
• Time to work on Assignment 3 and 4

Homework

• Work on Assignment#4 (due Week 5) See handout above.
  Here are the list of stories to go with exercises #6-10:
  6. Jack and the Beanstalk by Doreen Wright
  7. Allegory of the Cave by Aliver Canaria
  8. The Backseat Murder by Albert Bernal
  9. The Story of the Arcade Underdog by Paul Paulino
  10. The Monkey Paw by Xiaocen Jiao

Edited stories based on comments you received should be saved into dropbox folder – week3. Please do so immediately if you have not already.

Agenda

• Homework DUE – Review magazines and newspapers that everyone was supposed to bring in
• Save CompingType exercise as a PDF with crop marks and your name on it, into the class dropbox folder: “Week2-CompingExercise”
• Thoughts on Paul Rand exhibit?

Lecture

• Become a member of class Openlab page: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/comd2327-type2-fa2015/
• Type families – review
• Anatomy of a Typeface – review

Handouts

• See assignment from week1: COMD2327Project1-Overview
• COMD2327-Assignment#3
• COMD2327Week3-Terms
  

Lab

• Edit ‘Urban Legend’ based on feedback
• Work on Assignment 3

Homework

• In your daily travels over the course of the week take 6 photographs. Each photo should show one example of a bad use of type based on the week3 handout of terms (see above). So for example find an example of bad kerning. Or an example of a neglected widow in some body copy. Please post image with caption to your Openlab page and send me the link to the comments section of week3 of this blog.

• Work on Assignment#3 (due Week 5) See handout above.
  Here are the list of stories to go with exercises #1-5:

1. The Old Woman by Noura Mahmoud
2. Five Chinese Brothers by Jeremy Kao
3. Little Red’s Betrayal by Yamile Bonifacio
4. Tata Duende by Dyjhaun Jenkins
5. Daedalus Wings by Luis Lopez

Stories are posted in dropbox folder – week3