AdvancedGraphics: January 2010

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

BLOG POST for EXERCISE ONE due 1/25/10

Please post a .png of the typeface that you used as well as a .png of the icons create. Include images of the objects you used to inspire your icons. Also include an explanation of the process you used to get from typeface and image to icon, with a discussion of how you were influenced and the resultant manifestation.

EXERCISE TWO: Contemporary Icon(s)

Choose a contemporary typeface, which may be a novelty typeface from dafont.com, to use for inspiration in the creation of contemporary icons. Use industrial and architectural design from this millennium as inspiration as well. Your new icons do not need to be completely cut up from the found typeface, but should be in part.

Start black and white, but we will be moving to color shortly.

Begin a blog post with research for this project, and continue research by adding to this post. Do this by finding images and examples to be used as inspiration.

BLOG POSTS beginning 1/25/10

Beginning 1/25/10, completed Blog Posts are due every Monday.

There should be one post per assigned article.

There should be THREE images per post.

Image One: the image from the text - If no image is provided, search for one that is mentioned or that directly relates to the subject

Images Two and Three: follow a thread based on formal visual responses to the original image or on ideas you get from the original image and its relationship to the subject of the reading

- include date and designer with Each Image

- include a short paragraph explaining the presence of each image on your blog

Monday, January 11, 2010

EXERCISE ONE : ICONOFACE

EXERCISE ONE:

choose from one of the following typefaces:

Helvetica

Peignot

Cooper Black

Egyptian

Bodoni

Baskerville

Garamond

Blackletter

Research the history of the typeface.

Use the alphabet (converted to outlines in Illustrator) to create a group of icons based upon imagery/art from the time period. (cut up and reassemble with the knife tool)

No scale shifts, but the letters/parts can be copied as many times as is necessary.

The entire alphabet should be used, no leftover parts.

(note: this project is based on Ellen Lupton's class project "Helvetica Nation" for Graphic Design II at the Maryland Institute College of Art)

BLOG POSTS

BLOG POSTS-

inspiration sourcebook (EVERYTHING MUST LINK BACK TO THE ORIGINAL SOURCE)

For each assigned essay you will find an image that relates.

for example, today - two readings

find:

1. Heine's dog and

2. a US military paper bomb

Each of these images will then be followed by a minimum of two more (ex. 2 for Heine, 2 for Paper Bombs)

The two new images will be images that you come across/search for based on thoughts or responses to the reading.

Also each image will be followed by an explanation of how it relates in your mind.

Always include the Artist and the date. If either are unknown then a general description will suffice.

PAPER BOMBS

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