I was fortunate to spend two weeks this past summer attending workshops in the Type Program at the Cooper Union in New York. One course focused on informal script lettering with Ken Barber of House Industries. One day’s assignment was to design a custom identity for “Summer Stage,” an annual event held in Central Park.…
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Second-semester students in my ARGD 3060 class were divided into four groups with each group given one of four real forms/business papers (two invoices, a health insurance EOB and a bank statement). They were asked to review them critically in terms of information hierarchy, typography, readability and general usability. They then quickly attempted their own redesign(s) by…
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This was a first stab at this collaborative animation project in which each student does a different letter of a given word (we used MAKE and CONNECT.) This project was done my second-semester design studio, Type & Image. A few of the letterforms disappear for too long (and one of the letter Cs doesn’t stay in…
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Many thanks to my colleague Eileen Wallace for helping me letterpress these sweet cards for my Dad last fall. It was fun to get away from the screen and sniff some ink.
My ARGD 3060 students were able to have their business card designs offset printed at nearby UGA Printing Services. We were given a tour of the facilities and they kindly timed our job on press so that the students could actually proof their job during our visit. Each student received about 250+ cards. #offset #spotcolors…
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