Typography take home
WEEK 11: Typography | Lantin | STUDIO ART I
due Wednesday Nov. 27
regardless of whether you are attending class that day because of the break – please be sure to submit your homework before you leave –
place it in the classroom with your name visible
To play with letters in an metaphorical, abstract and non-linear way.
WHERE TO BEGIN?
Choose from the following words and devise a strategy whereby your choice of font, it’s rendering, execution and compostion, all serve to further convey the meaning of the word itself.
Consider double meanings that may be present in the word you chose. Reviewing the language we have been using this semester – balance, directional dominance, scale, value, shape, line – and have this influence the compositions you work out in your thumbnails and your final piece.
In your sketchbook, experiment with composition and strategy. Work in pen or pencil for these brainstorms. Try multiple words…
INGENUITY is KEY
REMEMBER THAT CRAFT COUNTS.
You choose the scale – no smaller than a 10 x 10 inch square
You can use any of the media we have worked with through the semester
- · the completed composition mounted on a trimmed piece of presentation board (from the Painting studio – mount on the white side) –