Day 20 : Feb 20, 2015

Today we covered

• Web Type, Making decisions as designers, and moving away from designing the obvious

Web Type

• Sign up for Typecast (free), you’ll need it for HW.

Homework

Supplemental Resources

• Read about Style Tiles
• Read about element collages
• Ideas are Easy, Integration is HARD
• Getting ideas off the ground

Assignments

• Create a wordlist for the restaurant project
• Use TypeCast to create 10 typographic specimens for the restaurant project
• Update “TIY assignments” markdown file with all assignments!
• Make sure you check your email for HW from Katlyn!

Extra Assignments

• Start a side project using any of the skills you’ve learned! Inspiration: The power of side projects
• Blog post on the process of of using TypeCast.
• Blog post on Helvetica

Extra Resources

• Listen to the StyleGuide Podcast – especially #5 (about element collages)
• Read about Morphological Matrices