Week 2 - time to respond to your author invitations and blog...

Hi everyone. Welcome to Week 2.

Lauren tells me the studio has been going really well. I'd not received any responses to the author invitations I sent out on Week 1 so I did suspect something was wrong. Hopefully the second round of invites has made it through and you will be able to respond and then blog your responses as planned. At this early point in the course this technical glitch doesn't present too much of a problem, but do get on it as the blog becomes an integral part of the course.

Each week in addition I will be posting at least one new type related resource that we think will be useful in developing your knowledge, skills and understanding of type in the context of publishing design and graphic design more generally. The first of these is a really interesting and engaging typographic game that gets you thinking about and considering the important role of KERNING in setting type. If you are not already aware the setting you are working on in the Letterpress Studio does at least to some extent involve making judgements about Letter space and Kerning is the technical terms for arranging type in a manner that gives due attention to the negative space between the individual characters.

Screenshot of the "kern me" typographic game at: http://type.method.ac/

So, click on the link above and spend some time with this to get a sense of how kerning impacts on the readability and balance of a typographic setting.

Make sure you have completed these activities for next week's studio:
I know that many of you developed your response to the SR 1 task and have provided these to Lauren. Please do post them up on the blog as well to ensure you've completed all the required tasks for the course.

Your tasks for this week include:

Studio: Introduction to letterpress technology and process. Compose two letterpress booklet page designs.

Self Directed: Refine selected designs for discussion, review, and printing in next class.