Category: DMA384

1. What did you learn? In completing this project, I became much more familiar with InDesign. I learned how to set up parent pages, paragraph styles, and page numbers. I also become more comfortable working with a grid. 2. What was easy? Using a grid-based layout approach made this project easier. 3. What was challenging?…

1. What did you learn? In this project, I learned about the Arts and Crafts movement and a couple of famous designers from this period. I also found out that the movement has a few local connections! Dard Hunter, who the typeface I used was named after, worked as a graphic designer with the Roycrofters…

1. What did you learn? In this project, I learned how to arrange and manipulate text in a way that expresses meaning by making adjustments in details such as sizing, spacing, cutting, and placement. 2. What was easy? Technically, this project wasn’t difficult. 3. What was challenging? Creatively, this project was more challenging. Coming up…

Serif/Roman Serif or Roman typefaces are characterized by the serifs on the ends of the letters. Historical/Celtic Celtic typefaces (Manno, Privitera Gloekler, Reilly) are characterized by their roundedness and triangular ascender tops. Yu and Gilbert are historical typefaces. Script Script typefaces look like handwriting. Sans-Serif/Block Sans-serif or block typefaces are characterized by the absence of…

1. What did you learn? I learned that there are a lot of details that go into making a font. The concepts of x-height, cap-height, baseline, ascenders and descenders were all new to me. I also learned several different typeface classifications beyond just serif and sans-serif. 2. What was easy? Playing around with basic shapes…