Saturday, March 2, 2013

Lesson: Typography as a Composition

Overview:

This project introduced students to typography and thinking of typography as a design element rather than as a literary element. The students used Photoshop and placed each letter of their name on a separate layer to enable transforming and rotating each character separately.

Content Focus:

  • Use the characters of your name to develop a unified composition.





Photoshop Skills:

  • Type Tool
  • Layers
  • Blending Modes
  • Character Panel for Type
  • Rotating and Scaling
  • Font exploration and experimentation

Design Concepts:

  • Cropping and Composition
  • Unity
  • Balance
  • Positive/Negative Space
  • Line and Movement
  • Size/Scale

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