Project 2&3
Assignment 1
1. Find 5 example of typographic portraits
2. Create a typographic self-portrait
Assignment 2
1. Find 5 examples of type that expresses the synthesis of two words or ideas.
2. Think up 10 ideas using a single word or phrase with an idea or modifier drawn into the design of the word. Here are two simple examples, but I'm sure you'll want to be more creative than this:
Assignment 3
Time as an element
Using your best "type synthesis" piece create an animation. You can use layers in Illustrator or Photoshop as frames in the animation by importing the work into Flash.
We will be building these into a we page. This page will be due March 11th.
Assignment 4
Creating a webpage using Dreamweaver
Creating art, text and slices for HTML files
Embedding SWF files
Page will be due March 25th.
Assignment 5
Using type and time (as an element), animation or video to create deteriorating or forming text.
The review of these projects are due April 8th -- your sketchbooks will be due with all the assignments leading to the final presentation of this project. Be sure to include thumbnails, storyboard ideas, or layout sketches for this project to get full credit for you sketchbook.
Putting it all together:
Project 2&3 Final
Using Photoshop and Illustrator for the artwork (back drop of the page) and Dreamweaver to add interactivity and linked pages, create a design for a web page that can include everything you have made for this course so far -- Basiclly make a gallery of the work. Make a Header using your Name for the web page. Embed Images, SWF files, and the video you have been working on. You can make thumbnail images that link to pages that have larger version of your work, or you embed everything on the one page -- whatever design you think will be the neatest.
I will collect these and put them on the art.hsu.edu server -- so, they will actually be on the WWW.
Final versions of your web are due April 24th. You must put them your web folder (ie stoddardd) in the Drop Box on dad05 under the ART account by nthe end of the day. Even though I will be out of town the system will show the time and date you put your project in this folder.
Project 4
Fibonacci Book Project
Using the Fibonacci number system as raw material for a grid system create a 20 page booklet about the Fibonacci system using InDesign.
You may only use text and typographical forms for the content of the booklet. You may use the text provided below from the Wikipedia entry on Fibonacci.
You may cut into the pages, or customize your pages to create a graphic element that is not typographical.
One thing that might help you make something really great is to think of each "page" as a frame of time. Take well advantage of the use of the principles of design -- Contrast, Rhythm, Balance, Positive and Negative (Figure/ground reversal), Direction, etc. to make the strongest design possible.
Spend time in your Sketchbook being creative before you layout and produce your design. Ideas in your sketchbook will be part of the grade.
There will not be a class critique for this project. You will be turning in your finished booklet on Thursday, May 1 -- the final day of class.
Text from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number
In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers are a sequence of numbers named after Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci. Fibonacci's 1202 book Liber Abaci introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics, although the sequence had been previously described in Indian mathematics.
The first number of the sequence is 0, the second number is 1, and each subsequent number is equal to the sum of the previous two numbers.
The Fibonacci numbers first appeared, under the name m?tr?meru (mountain of cadence), in the work of the Sanskrit grammarian Pingala (Chandah-sh?stra, the Art of Prosody, 450 or 200 BC). Prosody was important in ancient Indian ritual because of an emphasis on the purity of utterance. The Indian mathematician Virahanka (6th century AD) showed how the Fibonacci sequence arose in the analysis of metres with long and short syllables. Subsequently, the Jain philosopher Hemachandra (c.1150) composed a well-known text on these. A commentary on Virahanka's work by Gop?la in the 12th century also revisits the problem in some detail.