The History of Design and Type Setting
Assignment 1: Symbolic Meaning
Details:
Create a chain of symbols are transferring a personal message. Do not use letters or already existing symbols, we need to see how creative you can be to create original artwork. Think of it as an international communication tool, people can read it without special language skills. If it helps, start ideation on paper in sketchbook.
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024
Thoughts Behind the Art:
For this assignment, I wanted to create two symbols that represent hobbies that I like and one symbol to represent the tattoo that I have. The first symbol I made is a person in a book sitting since reading is one of my favorite hobbies. The second symbol is an abstract camera since I love photography. I didn’t want it to be obvious, so I made half of the lines wavy. For the last symbol, I have moon tattoos and have always found melting shapes to be pretty, so I wanted it to look at dropped down as possible while still having its shape.
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024
Assignment 2: Hieroglyph Writing Exercise
Details:
Combine a number of symbols to create a short story or message. symbols to use:
Thoughts Behind the Art:
I wanted my story to have more than five symbols in it, so I chose 8 as the perfect number. When deciding on the message I wanted to make a chose the symbols that I found interesting and then turned them into a sentence. When it came to the background, I wanted it to look like it was on a wall in Egypt. For the border I looked up Egyptian patterns and based the border on them.
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024
Assignment 3: Lettering during the Roman Empire
Thoughts Behind the Art:
For this Assignment, I chose the gothic art theme and chose the font Cattedrale. For the words I chose Gargoyle since that is usually what I think of when I remember the gothic art and architecture era. For the picture I choose to hand draw a Gargoyle in Photoshop and then export it was a Jpeg into Illustrator. I then put them all together on the page and made a border using some of the pieces from the font.
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024
Thoughts Behind the Art:
I choose the Humanism time period during the renaissance. After looking up information on what the Humanism movement was about, I decided that I wanted my font to be something that resembles the font from old books. I found Charpentier Renaissance font that is modeled after the fonts commonly used during the rise of the printing press. For the image I chose to make a quill out of all of the letters. Then I found an image the reminded me of humanism to go
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4: Renaissance Typography and Printing
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024
Thoughts Behind the Art:
For this assignment, I chose the Art Nouveau era. For my word I chose Alphonse, who was one of the great painters during that time. I chose one of his paintings and made it into a vector for my image. For my frame and abstract art, I chose things related to nature since a lot of the work during that era was related to nature. I made a tree out of the letters in the painter’s name.
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024 Assignment
5: Typography During Colonization
Assignment 6: Early Twentieth-Century Typo
Thoughts Behind the Art:
For this assignment, I went with more color than my other options. Since color field painting is colorful and mainly focused on a new way to use colors that’s the approach, I wanted to take with my assignment. One of the main colors that they use when painting is orange, blue, green, purple, and red. I chose two of those colors to my main focus when making my page.
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024
Assignment 7: The Swiss design Style
Thoughts Behind the Art:
For this assignment, I choose the words Garage Band because it a term that was used to describe the early punk rock era. For the boarder I looked at a lot of different Punk band posters and saw that they had a lot of words for the boarders. A lot of the posters also had eyes and X’s on them so I choose those for my abstract.
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024
Thoughts Behind the Art:
I chose Digital font as the theme for my page design. When I was doing the research, I found that a lot of it was coding and resolution. This is why for my boarder I choose ones and zeros since because of the binary code. The word I choose is Transistor since it is the main component of a computer that makes it work. For my abstract piece I choose to make a computer out of the words that I had.
Assignment 9: Type Face's Anatomical Details
Thoughts Behind the Art:
For the assignment I chose the words Swahili and chose the font Africa to represent some of the writing they had. I found the boarder by looking at some of the artwork that they had. My information in on the font family I talk about its definition and the different categories that it has. For my abstract, I used some letters to make the symbol for Unity in Swahili. For my picture I used some of their coins.
Crystal Jobe \ Typography
Thoughts Behind the Art:
In this assignment I choose the font studio Ghibli font that is supposed to represent the font used in the company. I made the background from looking at a poster that they had of some of the characters. I used the fonts from the movie My Neighbor Totoro in the middle since it’s closer to the font that they made. The abstract is made to look like one of the characters.
Assignment 10: Type Identification
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024
Thoughts Behind the Art:
Assignment: For this assignment, I choose to design pages falling into a book. I wanted them to look I want the shape of the text box to look like an actual page, so I used a dark shade of grey as the back of the paper. I chose ten of the songs that I like and picked fonts that I think go with. The main fonts that I went with are Kapelka, New Kansas, Manteiga, and Trilby.
Assignment 11: Value, Color, and Contras
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024
Assignment 12: Selecting and Combining Fonts
Thoughts Behind the Art:
For this assignment, I wanted to create a business that had a lot to do with the south Florida environment, I came up with a business planner company that specializes in outdoor events. Since the name has the word sunset in it, I wanted the logo to have the colors of the sunset I thought that the having the liquid in the glass be sunset themed would pull the logo together.
Assignment 13: Page Design Traditional
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024
Thoughts Behind the Art:
For this assignment, I wanted to create a simple make something simple and chose a theme that I could work with. I made wanted elements from the real life in my page I choose the saying “Pick a card, any card” and made it stand out against the other elements. I got the words and titles from Wiki.
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024
Assignment 14: Page Design Modern
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024
Thoughts Behind the Art:
For this assignment, I wanted to create a spread that looked like a scrapbook. I started by creating the background. I made Rectangles that look like scrapbook tape and then used them to “glue” down the pictures I had. I wanted the topic to be something that people would scrapbook about, so I chose Traveling. I wanted the sections to stand out more, so I used black lines to separate them.
Crystal Jobe \ Typography Fall 2024
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