Podcast #4 Typography

Define typography? The art of expressing ideas through the selection of appropriate typefaces.

Where did the word "typography" originate from? A greek word typos (form) & graphy (writing)

What does typography involve? The selection of appropriate font and working with all aspects of fonts and arranging them.

What is a typeface? Distinctive designs of visual symbols that are used to compose a printed image/design.

What is another term for typeface? Fonts

What is a character? Individual symbols that make up a typeface. Letters, numbers, and punctuation marks

What is type style? = modifications in a typeface that create design variety while maintaining the visual style of the typeface. Bold, Italicize etc.

What does type style "create" within a design? It creates variety. 

What is the waist line and what does it indicate? At the middle of the dotted line. At the top of the lower case letter.
 
What is a base line and what does it indicate? The bottom

What is an ascender? Below the waist line

What is a descender? Above the waist line

Describe a serif? A wedge shape in its

How can the size of the typeface be identified? The vertical measurement used to identify the size of a typeface. It measures from the top of the top of the ascender to the bottom of the descender.

What is a point? The point size is measured in a unit called..

How many points are in an inch? 72

What is a pica and how many are in an inch? Pica is a point size

How many points are in a pica? 6 picas in an inch 12 points in a pica

What is body type and where can it be found? The body of a blog, or a letter

What is the key to selecting appropriate typefaces to be used as body type?

What is display type and how is it used? Display types is used for headlines.

What is reverse type and when would it be used? Reverse type is font on black background

What is a typeface classification? Organizing fonts

When was Blackletter invented and how was it used?  1400s

Describer the characteristics of a Blackletter typeface?

When was Old Style invneted and what was is based on? Developed in the 15th, 16th century.

Describe the characteristics of an Old Style typeface? Wedge shaped serifs

When were formal scripts developed? Represent formal handwriting. Used for formal inscriptions

When were casual scripts developed? Represent handwriting 

Describe the characteristics of a Script typeface?

When was Modern typefaces developed and why? 18th & 19th century

Describe the characteristics of a Modern typeface? Similar to old style .

How early can Sans Serif typefaces be found? What happened? As early as the 5th century but it wasn't utilized.

When did they become popular?

What does "sans serif" mean?

Describe the characteristics of a Sans Serif typeface?

When was Slab Serif developed and why? 19th century for advertisment

Describe the characteristics of a Slab Serif typeface? mainly used for head lines

Describe Decorative typefaces? Most distanct design style

Why were they developed? Developed for a purpose etc.

What are they best used for? Body text

Review Week 14

Identify 5 colleges that offer graphic design (or related) majors. For each, list the school name, location, graphics majors that are offered, requirements for admission. 
1. Colorado Mountain College-Spring Valley Campus, located 3000 County Road 114
Glenwood Springs, CO. Graphic majors that are offered are veterinary technology, photography, graphics, etc.


2. AI Miami International University of Art and Design, located 1501 Biscayne Boulevard 
Miami , FL 33132-1418. Graphic majors that are offered are Visual Effects and Motion Graphics, etc.

3. Art Center College of Design, located 1700 Lida St Pasadena , CA 91103. Graphic majors that are offered are 

Advertising, Illustration, Fine Art, etc.

4.College of Visual Arts, located 344 Summit Ave Saint Paul, MN 55102-2199. Graphic majors that are offered are

 Animation, Ceramics,etc.

5. Corcoran College of Art and Design, located 500 Seventeenth Street, NW Washington , DC 20006-4804. Graphic majors that are offered are Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics, etc.

Answer the following questions in your own words...
What is a portfolio?  A folder that demonstrates or show qualifications and is usually required to be shown at job interviews, and is constantly developed throughout a designer's career.
What is the importance of a portfolio? The importance of a portfolio is to show others one's qualifications and skills etc.

"Stephen Kroninger"

What kind of art/design does he produce? Stephen Kroninger cuts up photographic images, often from the pages of magazines, to create his collages. His work combines the art-historical tradition of "drawing with scissors" with the spontaneity and vitality of improvisational music. 
In what publications/media studios has his work been featured? Nickelodeon, HBO and more.

Post 2 samples of his art. Answer the following questions for each piece...Was this piece published? Where? This piece was published in New York.  
This piece was also published in New York.


What principles of design were utilized within the piece? How?  The principles of design that's utilized in the pieces are proportion, balance and more. The different arrangement of shapes and color.

What elements of design were utilized? Proportion, balance and more.