typography is everywhere.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Journal #6
http://thirtyconversationsondesign.com/index.html
“What single example of design inspires you most?” and “What problem should design solve next?”
EMILY PILLOTON // Founder and Executive Director, Project H Design
TONY HAWK // President, Tony Hawk, Inc.
STEFAN BUCHER // Founder, 344 Design, LLC
DANIEL PINK // Author
JOHN M. MILITELLO // Creative Innovation Team Manager, Google Sales Development
above are the five conversations I listened to. Each were very interesting. the Apple products were mentioned multiple times which was not surprising. And i would have to agree with John Militello about how the remote needs to be redesigned.
“What single example of design inspires you most?” and “What problem should design solve next?”
EMILY PILLOTON // Founder and Executive Director, Project H Design
TONY HAWK // President, Tony Hawk, Inc.
STEFAN BUCHER // Founder, 344 Design, LLC
DANIEL PINK // Author
JOHN M. MILITELLO // Creative Innovation Team Manager, Google Sales Development
above are the five conversations I listened to. Each were very interesting. the Apple products were mentioned multiple times which was not surprising. And i would have to agree with John Militello about how the remote needs to be redesigned.
Monday, March 7, 2011
1. What are the advantages of a multiple column grid.?
2. How many characters is optimal for a line length? words per line?
anything from 45 to 75 characters is widely regarded as a satisfactory length of line for a single-column page. For multiple-column work, a better average is 40-50 characters.
3. Why is the baseline grid used in design?
4. What is a typographic river?
5. From the readings what does clothesline or flow line mean?
6. How can you incorporate white space into your designs?
7. What is type color/texture mean?
color: refers to the darkness or blackness of the letterforms in mass. depends on 4 things: the design of the type, the spacing between the letters, the spacing between the words, and the spacing between the lines.
8. What is x-height, how does it effect type color?
9. In justification or H&J terms what do the numbers: minimum, optimum, maximum mean?
10. What are some ways to indicate a new paragraph. Are there any rules?
11. What are some things to look out for when hyphenating text?
avoid more than two hyphenations in a row
avoid too many hyphenations in any paragraph
avoid stupid hyphenations
never hyphenate a heading
break lines sensibly
12. What is a literature?
13. What does CMYK and RGB mean?
14. What does hanging punctuation mean?
15. What is the difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe?
foot mark (')
apostrophe (‘)
16. What is the difference between an inch mark and a quote mark (smart quote)?
inch marks (")
quote marks (“,”)
17. What is a hyphen, en dash and em dashes, what are the differences and when are they used?
hyphen: strictly used for hyphenating words or line breaks. (-)
en dash: used between words indicating a duration, such as hourly time or months or years (–)
em dash: twice as long as the en dash. often used in a manner similar to a colon or parentheses or it indicates an abrupt change in thought, or it is used in a spot where a period is too strong and a comma is too weak (—)
18. What are ligatures, why are they used, when are they not used, what are common ligatures?
2. How many characters is optimal for a line length? words per line?
anything from 45 to 75 characters is widely regarded as a satisfactory length of line for a single-column page. For multiple-column work, a better average is 40-50 characters.
3. Why is the baseline grid used in design?
4. What is a typographic river?
5. From the readings what does clothesline or flow line mean?
6. How can you incorporate white space into your designs?
7. What is type color/texture mean?
color: refers to the darkness or blackness of the letterforms in mass. depends on 4 things: the design of the type, the spacing between the letters, the spacing between the words, and the spacing between the lines.
8. What is x-height, how does it effect type color?
9. In justification or H&J terms what do the numbers: minimum, optimum, maximum mean?
10. What are some ways to indicate a new paragraph. Are there any rules?
11. What are some things to look out for when hyphenating text?
avoid more than two hyphenations in a row
avoid too many hyphenations in any paragraph
avoid stupid hyphenations
never hyphenate a heading
break lines sensibly
12. What is a literature?
13. What does CMYK and RGB mean?
14. What does hanging punctuation mean?
15. What is the difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe?
foot mark (')
apostrophe (‘)
16. What is the difference between an inch mark and a quote mark (smart quote)?
inch marks (")
quote marks (“,”)
17. What is a hyphen, en dash and em dashes, what are the differences and when are they used?
hyphen: strictly used for hyphenating words or line breaks. (-)
en dash: used between words indicating a duration, such as hourly time or months or years (–)
em dash: twice as long as the en dash. often used in a manner similar to a colon or parentheses or it indicates an abrupt change in thought, or it is used in a spot where a period is too strong and a comma is too weak (—)
18. What are ligatures, why are they used, when are they not used, what are common ligatures?
Journal #5
Jonathan Harris
Cold : Bold
Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference October 14-16, 2010
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/video-gain-2010-harris
Jonathan Harris is a designer that mostly creates online projects. He uses computer science, statistics, storytelling, and visual art as tools. He feels as if technology needs to become more human.
He worked on projects like I Want you to Want Me in 2008, The Whale Hunt in 2007, Universe in 2007, We Feel Fine in 2006 and the book We Feel Fine in 2009.
Harris likes to think about how the viewer/user might interact with the piece he is designing.
Along with online projects, Harris also does some writing.
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