Links: February 17
Links for this week: Interview with artist R Luke DuBois (link) Facebook adds ~50 new gender terms to profile options (link) In-depth and geeky post (and video) on the history of PostScript and making...
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Assignment: Ampersand
Designing entire typefaces is a complex process, often taking months or years to complete. Instead, your assignment is to design a single ampersand “&” character, based on a source word (chosen...
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Assignment: Haiku
“Above all, a Haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi Pastorella.” – Jack Kerouac Most of this semester we...
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Links: December 1
Links for this week: The world’s most expensive typeface, and why you’d pay $5k for a font (link) The “stupid” version of the most expensive font in the world (link and above) Sci fi author Philip K...
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Links for this week: Noah Wall makes an entire album from people noodling in Guitar Center (link) Japanese furniture builder who makes handplane blades from river sand (link) Facets creative-coding...
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Links: October 6
Links for this week: A long-read on the inner-workings of Unicode (link) Iconic, an interesting-looking tool for app development (link) “The Deep Sweep,” a Critical Engineering project that uses a...
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Designing entire typefaces is a complex process, often taking months or years to complete. Instead, your assignment is to design a single ampersand “&” character, based on a source word (chosen...
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Links: October 19
Links for this week: J.R.R. Tolkien’s elaborate hand-drawn maps for his Lord of the Rings trilogy (link and above) If you’re looking to get into software-defined radio (SDR), this list of non-standard...
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Assignment: Expressive Typography/Haiku
Most of this semester we have used shape, color, and type to communicate as clearly as possible. Of course, this is only one approach to design. For this assignment, you will use type in an expressive...
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Links: November 2
Links for this week: An infographic charting the history of Lego brick colors (link) 8000+ photos from NASA’s Apollo Archive are now available on Flickr (link) The different typefaces for eyecharts...
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