LifeOnEarthIsChanging

Words cannot express..

Faces, faces... faces... faces and letters.... typographical odditity

This was a fun project... A little odd, but fun...

-Shannon Jones

Zapfino font face

Here is my face and the picture that I used for this project. I really wanted to put my hat into this picture because I really like my hat(s) a lot. Most of the intended words in this picture are in the outline of the hand that is holding my face up. The words are : Artist;forever;I;need;to;draw;love. The hardest part when making this letter face was my lips and eyes, it was difficult because I could not find the right letters to fit my lips and eyes just right so it took some time to find the right symbols and characters for my face. The only think outlining my face is my hat, hand and hair. Hopefully it got the curve of my face. :)

Enjoy and thank you.

IMAGINATION LIBRARY PROJECT 11X17 poster project

We will have a working critique on this poster on OCTOBER 4th 2010


LOTS OF GREAT INFO REGARDING GRIDS HERE GRID ARTICLES


DOWNLOAD THE IMAGINTION LIBRARY LOGO HERE BY RIGHT CLICKING HERE AND CHOOSE SAVE LINK AS




>>>From Robert Benson:
The Roane Imagination Library is the Roane Co. chapter of Dolly Parton's charitable Imagination Library which distributes free books to enrolled children from birth to age 5.

Sometime in October, the Roane Imagination Library will distribute its 100,000th free book to Roane Co. The Board is interested in commissioning a poster to help celebrate this milestone. I can provide more details, but thought I would ask first if you know of someone willing and able to donate their time toward the design of this poster.

My understanding is that the poster would be displayed around Roane Co and featured in the Roane Co. News.

letter portrait

I missed the class we did these shirts, so here is my design.

Typographic Self-Portrait

Here's my self-portrait. My font of choice was Georgia. I really love how this turned out. It's my best work to date.

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Self-Portrait_Font

Milan. A SWEEET Trip

Milano. Set Your Target.

Milano tshirt

T Shirt Design Contest

Pretty basic so far. Stumped on a slogan. The absolute final entry will be great.

If I wanted a shirt to wear...that...would be my shirt.

Milan t-shirt design by Curtis

Font Project

Milano T-shirts

3 font

IdeaMI Black and Red Cross T-shirts

For this project I actually made two different t-shirts for the entry.

The first (on the top) is the black cross t-shirt, a large black cross is placed around the icon of Milano, and I added black lining to the sleeves and collar. This is a very simple design yet seems extremely likable among my fellow classmates. :) Thanks guys!

The second one (on the bottom) is a red cross t-shirt with the words "creativity," "innovation," and "knowledge," inside the red cross. Milano is also placed in white onto the cross, partially adding onto the white t-shirt itself. Hopefully this will be interesting enough and simple enough to be likable. I actually like this shirt more than the black cross but that is just me. Good luck to the rest of you on this project. :)

CRITIQUE DATES

CRITIQUE FOR IdeaMI Tshirt design with logo usage September 22nd (post on blog prior to class)
see previous post for link to contest assets and rules

CRITIQUE FOR TYPOGRAPHIC SELF PORTRAIT September 27th
see textbook for examples and more information
YOU CAN ONLY USE ON MAC STANDARD FONT
DO NOT BREAK APART THE FONT OR DECONSTRUCT IT IN ANY WAY

ELLAMENNO

My additions are at the bottom of the chart.

My favorite one is the one that resembles both and H and an I. I actually came up with this when I was in kindergarten. My teacher made the common mistake of writing two uppercase "I's" and crossing them at once. My brain was always on something else, so I never heard what she was talking about, I just saw the image and wondered what letter it was... She would also say the letters, "L" "M" "N" and "O" very quickly when we recited our alphabet (pronouncing, "ellamenno"). So I thought that they were actually one mysterious letter that we never wrote... (oddly enough, I still knew about "L" "M" "N" and "O") Finally, one day I connected my crazy misconceptions to think that the letter "Ellamenno" was the letter I've illustrated in this project.

I continued in this disillusionment until second grade when we began homeschooling and my mom discovered what was happening...

Jacob's font project

Used courier

IdeaMI Milan’s contest for international creative talent

Regulations to the contest and downloadable files 

letter project

Anatomy of a Character

My Font of choice? Cooper Black.

Typing w/ Zapfino

Here is my type project.

I used the Zapfino font, and had to do it on the mac computer because my dell computer does not have the font. Besides that I really like how this turned out in the end. I really had fun with this project. I made the background a light green because it brings out the purple and it is one of my favorite colors. To fit in most of the parts for the letters in this project I had to change some of the letters. Instead of keeping it out or sticking to the original that we (the class) were coping from, I found the letters that had a pretty good example to replace the previous letter(s). Hope you all enjoy it. :)

Projects 2 and 3-Character Creation/ Anatomy of Character

Curtis W.

Anatomy of a Character

Arm/leg – An upper or lower (horizontal or diagonal) stroke that is attached on one end and free on the other.


Ascender – The part of a lowercase character (b, d, f, h, k, l, t) that extends above the x-height.

Bar – The horizontal stroke in characters such as A, H, R, e, and f.

Bowl – A curved stroke which creates an enclosed space within a character (the space is then called a counter).

Cap Height – The height of capital letters from the baseline to the top of caps, most accurately measured on a character with a flat bottom (E, H, I, etc.).

Counter – The partially or fully enclosed space within a character.

Descender – The part of a character (g, j, p, q, y, and sometimes J) that descends below the baseline.

Ear – The small stroke that projects from the top of the lowercase g.

Link – The stroke that connects the top and bottom part (bowl and loop) of a two–story lowercase g.

Loop – The lower portion of the lowercase g.

Serif – The projections extending off the main strokes of the characters of serif typefaces. Serifs come in two styles: bracketed and unbracketed. Brackets are the supportive curves which connect the serif to the stroke. Unbracketed serifs are attached sharply, and usually at 90 degree angles.

Shoulder – The curved stroke of the h, m, n.

Spine – The main curved stroke of the S.

Spur – A small projection off a main stroke found on many capital Gs.

Stem – A straight vertical stroke (or the main straight diagonal stroke in a letter which has no verticals).

Stress – The direction of thickening in a curved stroke.

Stroke – A straight or curved line.

Swash – A fancy flourish replacing a terminal or serif.

Tail – The descender of a Q or short diagonal stroke of an R.

Terminal – The end of a stroke not terminated with a serif.

X-height – The height of lowercase letters, specifically the lowercase x, not including ascenders and descenders.

CHEFBOYARDEEZ

I suggest the chef's pizza quickie.
WITH CHEESE!!!!?

Natures candy

skateboarding and spaghetti are the stuff life is made of... enjoy kids

Ray's Soup Can

This is my Progresso Soup Can. The soup is New England Clam Chowder, in a bowl made of bread.

Alli: Can

My soup can

I was trying to go for a "Premium" type thing

This is my first solid attempt at this project. Looks yummy!

Potato, Broccoli & Cheese Chower is the best soup...ever.

JacobB here with delicious soup can label.