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Assignment: Type to Reinorce Meaning


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Take a household object that has a dynamic impact on you and

transorm it into an icon. The process is about reduction, including onlywhat is necessary to evoke essence o the item.

Ater completion, extend that icon into multiple versions to achieve aspecic modication to the icons purpose.

Assignment: Production o an Icon

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Recreate the book cover o your avorite novel. Have designs producedin pairs, oering alternative sides o the novel. Include the title andauthor on the ront cover, and chose what to include rom the text o

the originals back cover.

Note: The covers I have done show two o the themes in the book, loveand reality. The rst cover is my interpretation o reality in the book; itshows the grittiness o real lie, the complications and struggles thatare aced. The second cover is about love and commitment, makingand keeping promises o devotion throughout time.

Assignment: Book Covers


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Choosing rom a list o given typeaces, create a modern poster to

showcase the ont. Incorporate a character set and a short history othe typeace; include designer, date, and location o origin.

Assignment: Typeace Poster

s ro es, ma ng e ser s s arper an moretapered, and shifted the axis of any rounded

letters to a more vertical position. The curvedstrokesare more circular in shape, and the letterforms became more regular. These changes added

a greater consistency in size and form. However, histype was severely criticized. Critics complained thatthe type would hurt the eyeand would be responsiblefor blinding the nation.Regarded as a failure,the typeface was not

revived until theearly 20th century.

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BASKERVILLE

The Baskerville typeface is the resultof John Baskervilles intent to improve upon

the typefaces of William Caslon. Now knownas a transitional serif typeface, Baskerville wasdesigned in 1757 in Birmingham, England. John

increased the contrast between thick and thinstrokes, making the serifs sharper and more

tapered, and shifted the axis of any roundedletters to a more vertical position. The curved

strokesare more circular in shape, and the letterforms became more regular. These changes added

a greater consistency in size and form. However, histype was severely criticized. Critics complained thatthe type would hurt the eyeand would be responsiblefor blinding the nation.Regarded as a failure,the typeface was notrevived until theearly 20th century.

Baskerville was aculmination of a

larger series ofexperiments to

boost legibility.


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Working in groups o our, create sound, designs, narrative, andprogramming or an interactive experience. Project should ocus uponthe non-linear narrative. Goal o experience, target audience, and allother production decision are to be determined and agreed upon bygroup members.

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Assignment: Interactive Media Project

Ater developing a narrative, a storyboard, and an animatic; complete

a short animation. Use as much original content as possible. Storylineshould be personal and overall styling should refect designerspersonality.

Assignment: Basic Narrative Animation

Time Based Designs


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Ater choosing the words texture and rotation create two short

animations that dene the themes using text, limited photography andno additive color.

Assignment: Typographic Animations

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