GDS 110 Typography I
Course Documents
Instructor: Jennifer Davis
Assignments
Projects
- Project 1: Type Specimen Poster
- Project 2: Wordmark & Identity
- Project 3: Illustrated Type
- Project 4: Holiday Card
Exercises
- Exercise 1: Type Portrait
- Exercise 2: Personal Projects Page (and publishing)
- Exercise 3: Grids (Garamond)
- Exercise 4: Historical Type
- Exercise 5: Missing Characters
- Exercise 6: Typographic Unity (Celebrate)
- Exercise 7: Wordmark (Lubalin)
- Exercise 8: Wordmark (Seafood)
- Exercise 9: Identity (One Beacon Court)
- Exercise 10: Type Recognition
- Exercise 11: Type Selection
- Exercise 12: Editorial Cover (Dining Guide)
- Exercise 13: Quote
- Exercise 14: Type on a Curve (Wisegarver)
- Exercise 15: Type Distortion
- Exercise 16: Hand-Generated Type (Heavenly Aloe)
- Exercise 17: Distressed Type (Evil Dead)
- Exercise 18: Animated Type (Hula)
- Exercise 19: Plastic Type (Web Buttons)
- Exercise 20: Layer Styles (Colors)
- Exercise 21: Chrome Type (Quest)
Lectures
Design Resources
- GDS News & Announcements Blog
- GDS Discussion Group
- C138 Open Studio Hours (also see Policies)
- C138 Studio Use FAQ Wiki
- del.icio.us/parkland.gds (Internet resources for graphic designers)
- typedia.com (Like Wikipedia for Type! Still in progress)
- CreativePro.com Typography articles
- Graphic Fetish(resources & creative inspiration)
- NaldzGraphics.net (design blog with excellent articles & some freebies)
Also see the Student Resources Page
College Resources
- Parkland Academic Calendar
- Parkland Center for Academic Success (Peer Tutoring, Writing Center, more...)
- Parkland Library
- Parkland Online (Email, Angel, Grades, Registration, more...)
Class
Handouts
- Classic Fonts Specimen Sheets
- Common
Graphics Formats
- Illustrator:
Finger Dance from The Illustrator WOW Book
- Keyboard
Shortcuts: Common Macintosh
- Keyboard
Shortcuts: Common Windows
- Keyboard
Shortcuts: Illustrator
- Sample
Thumbnail Sketches
- Vocabulary
Wheel
Last updated: 9/19/09 • Webmaster: Jennifer Davis