GDS 172 Typography II
Course Content
(Archived from 2019)
Projects
- Project 1: Magazine Layout
- Project 2: Direct Mail Promotion (YMCA)
- Project 3: Brochure (Champaign Surplus)
- Project 4: Book Design (Recipes)
Assignments
Field Trips
Exercises
- Process Page (download starter files)
- Text Type
- Choosing Text Type
- Editorial Layout (Goudy)
- Proofreading (Tibor)
- Combining Typefaces
- Direct Mail Mailer (YMCA)
- Preparing a Photo for Press (Backpackers)
- Importing and Editing Art (ICE)
- Paragraph Styles (ICE)
- Character Styles (Deep Dive)
- Foreign Accents
- Typographic Refinement (Kandinsky)
- Recipe Layout (Lamb)
- Lists & Drop Caps (Kindergarten)
- Charts & Tables (OLLI)
- Brochure (CPD)
Class Handouts
- Common Graphics Formats
- Core Fonts Specimen Sheets
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Common Macintosh
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Common Windows
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Foreign Accents
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Illustrator
- Scanning and resolution
- Thumbnail Sketches (examples)
- Type Pronunciation Guide
- Typography Checklist
- Typography Proofreaders' Marks
- Typography Style Guide (Nick Shinn)
- Vocabulary Wheel
- Welcome Letter