GRA310: Final Modern Typefamily Brochures

 Feedback from my professor was relatively positive, so only a few minor changes. The knock out type point size was reduce to a size that's more appropriate for body text. The body text examples were nudged to the right to prevent the text from falling into the gutter and I added the name of the type families to each of the brochures.

Oxymoron

For this assignment, we were given a list of oxymorons. We had to effectively illustrate both their means using only the type faces provided in the project specs. I chose "Futura" for "Loud" and "Bodoni" for "Whisper". The "black&condensed" weight for "Futura" allows the word to become more bold and recognizable, just like a loud noise. Making it bigger makes it's presence more emphatic. I used "Bodoni" for "Whisper" because the serifs are like little 'whisps'/strokes tapering off the letter, like a person whispering. Also, serif fonts are more personalized than sans serif fonts. So using Bodoni makes "Whisper" seem more personal, like someone whispering something in your ear.

GRA130: Type Trace 2

Round two with the type tracing. This one took a little less time because I was able to set the kerning via InDesign as oppose to setting it by hand. This trace, I feel, went better than my last attempt.

GRA130: Type Trace Garamond and Baskerville

Can't say this was the most fun/creative project I've done, but certainly harder than you would think. Had to trace each letter from a sheet provided by the professor, make sure each letter is placed on a level line, manually set the kerning so that the characters flow together and then outline and/or fill in the letter. The hatching on "Garamond" was the most time consuming and the most intimidating one.

Typography: Enhanced lyrics piece 1 of 3

This is 1 of 3 of the enhanced typography compositions. The job as to take a section of lyrics from a song, a poem or a quotation and enhance it typographically. The lyrics I ended up choosing were the "Enter Sandman" lyrics by Metallica. The lyrics are very descriptive and kind of freaky, so manipulating them won't be that difficult. It's also the song that got into liking Metallica's music. For this piece, I only maniplated certain words to help emphasis the type and what it is depicting. For example: the word "war" has blood spatter on it to show that war is gory, violent and bloody.

Web Type faces cube

Since most of us, including myself, epicly FAILED the first type cube, Richard was nice enough to let us redo the type cube assignment. The only difference was we had to replace 4 of the type faces with one's used on the web. Here's the finished product, here's hoping I don't fuck this one up...