[Typography and Visual Communication]

The Letter as Story

Prompt: Choose a significant letter from the last book your read (or your favorite book) and design an illuminated / illustrated letterform that tells the story of the book. This could be the linear/literal story, a pivotal or significant scene or represent a major theme. 

Texts: Meggs, Phillip B. History of Graphic Design; Heller, Steven and Gail Anderson. New Ornamental Type

Production: Hand drawn (various styles, graphite, pen + ink, colored pencil); Vectorized and laser printed on Hammermill 90# Bright White paper.

The Word as Character

Prompt: Based on Ellen Lupton's exercise in Thinking with Type, create a series of 9 compositions (2 for each of the words assigned and 1 for the new neologism you create) and demonstrate the meaning of a word through communicating a unique personality and life, much like those of a character in a story.

Production: Laser Print on Hammermill 90# BrightWhite Paper, Mounted on Acurit Mounting Board

Narratives in Dialogue: Believers and Skeptics

Prompt: Using the themes Believers and Skeptics, create two posters that are conceptually, textually and typographically in "dialogue" with one another. 

Production: Silkscreened, Plotter Prints, Laser Cut on Paper.

Narrative in Time and Space

Topics: Type as image; Tangible Typography; Typography in time and space

Text: Selections from Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities