Posted in August 3, 2010 ¬ 6:00 amh.xtine
Eric Gill, from An Essay on Typography:
It is clear that for any letter there is some sort of norm. To discover this norm is obviously the first thing to be done.
I have always thought of rhythm and repetition as the fundamental principles governing typography. When I read this quote by Eric Gill I [...]
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Posted in June 19, 2010 ¬ 6:00 amh.xtine
I am currently attending the Visual Communication 24th annual conference in Portland, Oregon, a beautiful, friendly, and accessible city. Since being here has afforded me a personal relationship with the city, I am better able to understand just how well Santiago Uceda’s city identity fits the feeling of being in Portland. Loads of city dwellers [...]
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Posted in June 17, 2010 ¬ 3:49 pmh.xtine
Last semester I taught an advanced media class where the students responded to a set of assignments very quickly in the first half of the semester, then refined two of those works before the semester ended.
One of the assignments was to create a kinetic typography video using any motion graphics software application and a short [...]
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