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Session 20 [Wed 101208] - Final Requirements

Quiz Answers
Answers to final quiz here

Final Requirements - due Friday 121208
Please submit the following for final grading -

• Three final printed designs as specified in Keyword:Iconic Stage3 brief
• Folio of supporting work showing the clear chronological development of your project though the three stages.
• Digital Folder of all important production files clearly organised in sub-directories inside a main Keyword:Iconic job bag Folder

Session 19 [Mon 081208] - Quiz/ Stage 3 Briefing/ Thumbnail Review/ InDesign Setup

Quiz
Postponed due to low turn out and late arrivals. Final quiz will now take place at the beginning of Session 20.

Stage 3 Briefing
For those who were not present for the final briefing, please read the Stage 3 brief carefully before next session if you hope to achieve a satisfactory finish.

Keep studying existing album art for interesting combinations of type and image, purely typographic designs, and pure image designs.

Thumbnail Review
Many thumbnail sketches are anticipated for Session 20. The best of your sketches need to go into production ASAP.

InDesign Setup
Time for a look at Packaging inDesign Files with Nate's early Stage 3 presentation [thankyou Nate].

Use InDesign as a sketchbook as shown earlier on in the term. Bring artwork [Photoshop] and final type solution [Illustrator] to the 12" x 12" file and start to compose based on the layout of your most interesting thumbnails.

Session 18 [Wed 031208] - Keyword Iconic Stage 2 Review/ Preparing Thumbnail Sheets for Stage 3

Homework First
Four things -

• Familiarise yourself with your InDesign notes from the first few weeks of term.
• Use thumbnail sheets to compose as many image and type combos you can think of.
• Prepare for a 10 question final quiz for Session 19.
• Finally, keep studying album cover art looking at examples of artwork employing image and type together, image alone, and purely typographic cover art.

Session 17 [Mon 011208] - Example Stage2 Presentation/ One-To-One Work In Progress/ Third type Approach - Style Variation

Homework First
Thankyou Nate for your well-delivered early presentation. Very useful for you guys to get a preview of a stage 2 presentation.

Please prepare a strict 15 minute presentation of your three type solutions for Session 18 [Wed 031208].

Also, read the Stage 3 brief [available to the right] before class.

Third Type Moment - Style Variation
We had a brief moment to look at font styling variations at the end of this session. The webpage of typeface styles and variations is accessible from the link below or to the right.

Style Variation Approach

Session 16 [Wed 261108] - Brutal Type Demo/ Hands On/ One To One

Homework
Please put in 4 hours of intense Gentle/Brutal type work/experimentation - try out the techniques you saw demonstrated in class working toward your 3 type solutions for first half of Session 18.

There will also be a quick quiz at the beginning of the next session [Mon 011208].

Brutal Type Treatments

Session 15 [Mon 241108] - Keyword:Iconic Stage2 Briefing/ Sourcing & Installing Fonts/ Glyphs/ Careful Type Assessment

Homework
Today we got back on track with a very efficient beginning to K:I Stage 2. Thankyou all for your focus today.

For Wednesday you are required to apply careful type parameters to your chosen copy. Remember to steer clear of the artist name as your text and to use Album/ Song titles, lyrics, associated words and phrases. Please collect what you do in Illustrator and refer to the  Gentle site  for a reminder of possible parameters to test your word against.

Sourcing & Installing Fonts

Sourcing Fonts

To the right, as you already know, you will find sources for commercial, freeware, and shareware fonts. You also have access to the AIU fonts in your user login. There are online resources for converting your handwriting into a type-able font, although there may not be time to take advantage of such services this term. Finally, there are font-finding resources to help you locate most fonts you might need. These final resources are likely to serve you well if you choose to make a career of Graphic Design or related discipline.

There are 3 principal type technologies for Apple computers - Postscript, Truetype, and Open Type formats. These three formats represent the history of fonts on your Mac. The most recent format, Opentype gives you access to tens of thousands more characters or glyphs per font than either Postscript or Truetype. However, there are many more available Postscript and Truetype fonts than there are Opentype, as it is a younger technology.

Font Installation

There are two key locations that should concern you when it comes to font installation. The System Font Directory and your User Font Directory. The first you should know enough about to leave it alone and the second should be used to house all your self-installed fonts.

Installed with OSX is the rudimentary but powerful font management application, Font Book. This, along with Extensis's Font Doctor program used to check for corrupt font files, is all you need to control the fonts on you system.

To install fonts on your mac, locate the font file in the finder and double click the file icon. You will be shown a sample window of the typeface to be installed. Just click the install button to open Font Book and install the font. The font is automatically put in your User Font directory [User>Library>Fonts]. Take some time to investigate the key features of font book.

Text Input

Once installed your font is now available to any application that uses fonts on your computer. It will appear in the font list. In Adobe Illustrator, the focus app of Keyword:iconic Stage2, pressing Apple T will activate the Character panel. The font list available via this professional type panel shows you the font name in the style of the face and also provides icon indicators for the font format. Useful.

Pangrams

We also looked at pangrams as part of our quick tour around Font Book.

Glyphs
In both Illustrator and InDesign you have access to the Glyphs palette [Type > Glyphs]. You will never again want for a particular punctation, ligature, or symbol!

Gentle:careful Type Procedure
[Please refer to your notes for this segment for now]