Class 5
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025 —
Typography
Activities:
- Creator Show and Tells:
- Melody and Subeen - Herb Lubalin
- Aparna and Serena - Guerilla Girls
- Review Flag and Bezier exercises
- Visual Lecture: Typography
- Exercise: I Shot the Serif game (interactive)
- Typography resources on Are.na
- Briefly Introduce Logo Project, assign part 1: come up with your brand name
- Ticket to Leave
Homework:
- Complete Expressive Type and Typeface Research Exercise
- Complete the I Shot the Serif game and upload screenshot of high score
- Extra Credit: Complete Kerning Method game
- Extra Credit Complete Shape Type Method game
Readings:
- "Hear, All ye People, Hearken O' Earth" Part 1 & 2 by Errol Morris, NY Times 2-part series, August 8, 2012
- A Language of Signs and Symbols, by Bruno Munari - Create a 3-symbol visual haiku in the same Figma file as the reading
- Letter and Text chapters from Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton