Class Typographic Portraits

“Power To The Poster is the former taken to dismantling the latter. This project exists to bring people together around a ready supply of well-designed, wild postings that comment on the issues of our time. These 11×17 posters in PDF format are for anyone, anywhere to download, print and post. The hope is that this site gets people talking about where we’ve been and where we’re going in these historic times.”

Typography- Contemporary Iran

Interesting use of Typography
by contemporary Iranian Designers
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Leading

Typographic Portraits

Create a typographic self-portrait in Adobe Photoshop

Canvass Requirements:

-          CMYK color mode

-          266 ppi

Investigation:

Collect a minmum of 10 typographic self portraits of various styles.

Portraits:

Choose a style and define your portrait using only text for line, value and shape. Recognizable text must be personal and not random. Consider choosing a theme and using words that fit that theme or describe your personality.

The Noun Project

 



How many symbols can you identify?
http://thenounproject.com/



"Arial’s ubiquity is not due to its beauty"

Have you been fooled by an imposter? Arial hit the mainstream when windows 3.1 was released and it has become the default font by many non-designers. If you look closely, Arial (developed by Birmly in 1989) and Helvetica (developed by Haas Foundry of Switzerland in the 1950s) have a lot in common. During the 60’s Helvetica was the typographic "darling” in the design industry. During the late 80s, due to licensing issues and expense; cheaper and often less visually pleasing look-alike fonts became the standard in Microsoft applications. Arial is believed to be Helvetica's substitute. In Mark Simonson's article, "The Scourge of Arial" you will be blown away by the events that led to the demise of Helvetica. What are your thoughts?

http://ilovetypography.com/2007/10/06/arial-versus-helvetica/