Aside from the redesigned UI, did anyone else notice that the new Firefox v.3.0 release automatically adjusts the kerning and ligature of web typography??? OMG! Everything is so much easier (and aesthetically-pleasing) to read all of a sudden, I love it!

My god, this class just draaaaags:

• create color study for Jacob Riis photo
• revise Margaret Morton color study to maintain continuity with Riis color study layout
• create 11x17" typographical cover for Jacob Riis
• create 11x17" typographical cover for Margaret Morton *updated* oh shitz i r screwed royally
• lay out all text from found articles on both ( Read more... )

...Or so I hope ( Read more... )

Still working on the first, more difficult of type compositions -- and I'm taking a breather for now. I think I'm going paranoid over this, mainly because it's hard to discern whether I'm doing what Henri expects of us or not. My typography in some concentrated areas resembles an organized shit bazaar; while in others it's incredibly bare. Does ( Read more... )

Bleh -- brainstorming kills me. I think I'm finally past this stage, so now's about time to actually get my hands dirty with TYPOGRAPHY OH NOES MY WOES!

I gotta say though, thanks to Henri and his strictness with all assignments, my sketchbook pages will always look like handwritten barf:

left page
right pageThis is a good thing! This is the " ( Read more... )

I never thought I'd be spending hours looking up fonts, and just fonts. But here I am doing just that. I need specific fonts to match two specific photographs. 154B with Henri is a pretty crazy class. And while I'm tired, I'm actually really enjoying this right now. Is that masochistic?