PROJECT 1 - ICON SET

Icon - a sign (graphic symbol) whose form suggests its meaning
___________________________________________________

CHOOSE FROM ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TYPEFACES:

Baskerville
*Blackletter 
Bodoni Bodoni DL
Century Schoolbook
Cooper Black (referred to as "Cooper Standard")
Didot
*Fraktur
Futura
Garamond
Gill Sans
Helvetica
Optima

Peignot Piegnot DL
Rockwell 

Times New Roman

Typefaces with an asterisk * in front of them are not part of the standard fonts loaded in Illustrator.  Students in the past have found free versions of them and then loaded them on their computer.  Keep in mind that if you switch computers you will need to load that font on your new computer or make sure to "package" your file.

Research the history of your typeface.

Use the alphabet (converted to outlines in Illustrator) to create a set of 8 icons/ pictograms based upon objects, architecture, or industrial/ product design from the time period when your typeface was created. Analyze your typeface's shape, proportions, and characteristics.  We should be able to see your typeface in your icons.

Cut up with the knife tool and reassemble or use the Pathfinder window.

Your icons should work together as a system in the same way that the different letters of your typeface work together.

Your icons should also relate to one another in terms of level of detail and scale.

The Rules:

-Your icons can only be black.
-Do not make icons/pictograms of company logos or two dimensional artifacts.

-Do not change the letters scale individually.  You can only change the scale of your letters as a unit.  For instance, you can NOT use pieces of both a 5 point and a 72 point letter in your icons.  Pick one size for all icons.

-Do not skew or distort the letters.

-Do not fill in the counters (the spaces inside the letters).

-Do not change the underlying path of the letters.
-You can reflect/mirror elements in your composition.
-You may assign a single color other than white to the background of your entire layout if it supports your overall concept.

This website has information on Pictograms (and the history of graphic design): http://www.designhistory.org

PRESENT YOUR FINALIZED ICONS, the name of your typeface and it's alphabet lower and uppercase ON AN 11 X 17 DOCUMENT.  THINK ABOUT HOW YOU PRESENT YOUR ICONS.  DO YOU WANT A BORDER?  WHERE WILL YOU POSITION THE ALPHABET ON YOUR PAGE?  THIS IS IMPORTANT.

DUE:  You have 4 class periods to work on your icons.  Your icons must be posted to your blog by the beginning of the class Wednesday Sept. 19th.  We will critique your projects at this time.

EXAMPLES:

By: Mary Britton

by: David Wansing

by: Morgan Lewis

by: Alexandria Fritsch

by: Joanna Forrester

by: Kassidy Renick

_________________________________________________________________________

By: Stefani Taylor

______________________________________________________________________

(note: this project is an expansion of Ellen Lupton's class project "Helvetica Nation" for Graphic Design II at the Maryland Institute College of Art)
The project's concepts include:

Working with restraints

Conveying ideas through minimal means

Relationships between contemporary design across disciplines

Relating parts of a set as development of a style

GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDIO 1 - FALL 2018

SYLLABUS FALL 2018 M/W 11AM-1:40

SYLLABUS FALL 2018 M/W 2PM-4:40

email: aruddick@uwf.edu

portion of NYC Subway Map - by Massimo Vignelli

IN CLASS ASSIGNMENT FOR FIRST DAY OF CLASS:

1. Create a blog using Blogger (you should log in using your UWF email and password). YOU MUST USE THE "SIMPLE" TEMPLATE!

After you create your blog click on the "view blog" button and copy the web address of your blog and email me the link. Email: aruddick@uwf.edu IN THE SUBJECT OF YOUR EMAIL PLEASE WRITE "GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDIO 1 blog link".

2. Create a folder in your Google Drive account specific to this class and share it with me.  Name the folder "your last nameGRA3102C".  You can access your google drive account from your UWF email.  Look in the upper right hand corner for the tiny grid of 9 squares and click it and select "Drive"  See below.