GD 230 Typography: Form
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Summary
This course focuses on the study of the formal structures of letterforms and text. An exploration of typography and its history is essential to create and extend meaning, emphasizing the relationship between form and content.
Texts
Typographic Design: Form and Communication by Rob Carter, Ben Day and Philip B. Meggs
Grading
Final grades will be based on your projects and assignments as well as attendence and participation throughout the term. Specific criteria for grading will be listed on each assignment sheet but will broadly cover the areas of:
Research and Conceptual Development
Formal Resolution
Technical Craft in Presentation
Effort and Professionalism: Often informal performance will influence your project grades.
Timeliness: Meet all final and intermediate deadlines. Arrive Early.
Quantity/Quality: Exceed the Minimum, Seek Critique.
Innovation: Seek Difference not Similarity.
Community: Collaborate, Listen and Share.
Prerequisites
GD105 ? mandatory, even if you were able to sign-up for this course online! This course assumes
a basic understanding of visual design principles and a foundation in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, which will be our standard mode of operation for the course. You may use InDesign as well if you wish. However, this is NOT a software course. If you find you are at a significant disadvantage with weaker knowledge of a given program, it is strongly suggested that you subscribe to Lynda.com for $25 a month (which can be renewed month-to-month depending on your needs and interests) to make significant progress with various computer applications.
Attendance & Punctuality
Class will begin promptly at 5:45. Attendance is mandatory; three unexcused absences result in a lower grade (from B to C, for instance); an excused absence is allowed in the case of a medical or personal emergency (illness with doctor?s letter; death in the family). An absence is defined as not showing up for class or showing up 5 minutes or more late for class. Repeated absences result in further grade reductions. On the fifth unexcused absence I reserve the right to Fail you from the class. A tardy means arriving more than 5 minutes late to class, leaving before class is dismissed, or leaving class to retrieve forgotten supplies or assignments. Two tardies equal one absence. Showing up more than 20 minutes late to class constitutes one full absence.
This syllabus is subject to change as necessary during the quarter. If a change occurs, it will be thoroughly addressed during class, posted under Announcements in D2L and sent via email.
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Students complete the evaluation online in CampusConnect.
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All students are expected to abide by the University's Academic Integrity Policy which prohibits cheating and other misconduct in student coursework. Publicly sharing or posting online any prior or current materials from this course (including exam questions or answers), is considered to be providing unauthorized assistance prohibited by the policy. Both students who share/post and students who access or use such materials are considered to be cheating under the Policy and will be subject to sanctions for violations of Academic Integrity.
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