GD II for Tues. Sept. 14

Continue working on the things we discussed during class today. Remember to USE the grid to help you make placement decisions. Please limit your typeface selections to any of the following: Garamond, Baskerville, Bodoni (NOT "hand" or "brush"), Rockwell or Helvetica. You may use any version of these such as italic, extrabold, etc., so this gives you a very generous palette to work with.

Most of you need to scan and experiment with more of your original sketches in your layouts. Find ways to incorporate color that is NOT a solid background, but that functions in some way to enhance RELATIONSHIPS, to focus the viewer's attention on the visual hierarchy you are setting up.

I will not tell you a definite number of new versions to do, but I do expect to see SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS on your work from where I saw it today.

Also, begin research into a typographer assigned at random as follows:

Jamie Bruder: Matthew Carter
Delia Cho: Carol Twombley
Dustin Davis: Eric Speikerman
Amanda Goddard: Tobias Frere-Jones
Ryan Grant: Gerard Unger
Kimberly Hahn: Zuzanna Licko
Roselyn Johnson: Beatrice Ward
Brittany Norwood: Robert Slimback
Mallory Royal: Sumner Stone
Misty Smith: Herman Zapf

Find out as much as you possibly can about your assigned designer. This means seeking out means OTHER THAN THE INTERNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!---Go to the library and look up graphic design books that might contain their work. This means you will need to do a little digging to get all the good stuff on them. Collect up as many images as you can about them, their work and examples of all the typefaces they have designed that you can find. You will need to create a significant bank of information, including an image of each character of at least two of their typefaces in more than one size.

This is the "research" stage of a design project we will do later in the semester where you create a simple 16 page book about your typographer and their work and bind it by hand. The book must contain at least two complete sets of two different typefaces your designer has designed. You will also create/make a "process" book documenting your progress during the entire project, so save EVERYTHING you can dig up and put it all in a folder for future use. I will want to see your folder during class the day I get back and expect it to be chock full of juicy info so you have much to draw on once we start that design process.

You have 12 DAYS until you see me again, so do enough work to justify your productivity for that amount of time. As you may have noticed, the expectations of your work ethic, engagement in the processes and generally enthusiasm for graphic design are now being judged by a higher bar than you enjoyed during GD I.