Agenda
- Homework DUE – everyone was supposed to bring in interesting magazine and/or newspaper layout for review
- Layout calendar (InDesign)
- Make sure your ‘urban legend’ essay is posted into the class dropbox folder. Email me if you can not access.
- Post a project from your last semester in Type&Media to your ePortfolio and add the link to the discussion on OpenLab:
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
- Alignment issues: Justified/ Forced Justified
- Widows, orphans and rivers
Handouts
- See assignment from week1
- COMD2327-Assignment#2
- COMD2327Week3-Terms
Homework
- In your daily travels over the course of the week take 3 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 ePortfolio page and send me the link to the comments section of week3 of this blog.
- Work on Assignment#2 (due Week 4) See handout above.
Here are the list of stories to go with exercises #1-5:
- Nicole Harripersad “Bloody Mary”
- Alana Langyel “A California Ghost Story” or Gennessy Palma “La Llorona”
- Giselle Rodriguez “The Suicidal Boyfriend” or “Well to Hell”
- Clarissa Blanchette “The Handshake”
- Luis Lopez “Daedalus Wings”
Stories are posted in dropbox folder – week3
