Syllabus
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week one
In-class assignment
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Magritte
Review of anatomical terms
In-class exercise
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Gill Sans
in development
Homework 1
Sample
developing letterform from scanned source
Project 1: c a t a l y s t
week two
In-class assignment 2
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H - O - V
Strokeweights
modern fonts
In-class exercise 2
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Example 01
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Example 02
week three
In-class assignment 3
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more modern fonts
In-class exercise 3
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Example
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Past work
Project 2: Variations on theme
week four
Final version of Project 1 due beginning of class
Magazine Headers
Russian Posters
Sweeney Todd
Metropolis
Miscellaneous
Abstracting the Layout
Homework 2
Project 3: Shakespeare's Macbeth
- part 1
week five
Final version of Project 2 due beginning of class
A Macbeth web-Commentary
Gawd Awful Macbeth Posters
Additional Reference Material
Modern Postcard
Abstract Art
Abstract Graphics
Theatre Mock-logo
Project 3: Shakespeare's Macbeth
- part 2
week six
More Modern Abstraction
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prepatory work for project 4
Project 4: Literary Headlines
week seven
Final version of Project 3 due beginning of class
Protest
Strong Typographical Headings
Left Bank Books
|| Saint Louis, MO
screen capture
Project 5: Promotional Postcards
week eight
Final version of Project 4 due beginning of class
Establishing the layout
Medieval / Renaissance
Breaking the Layout
1920's to the present
Text
Lewis Carroll
Richard Wright
Loíza Julia de Burgos
Anna Akhmatova
Walt Whitman
Allen Ginsberg
Ntozake Shange
one last example
: the unexpected
Final Project : Class Brochure
week nine
week ten
Final version of Project 5 due end of class
Final Project due 06.11.07