MAS.962 | Fall 1997 | Graduate

Digital Typography

Calendar

The problem sets are due during the lecture noted in the table below.

LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction

Lecture: Typographic Codes

Assignment 1 handed out.
2 Lecture: History of Typography 1  
3 Assignment 1 Review

Lecture: Living Page Substrates / Neighborhoods

Assignment 2 handed out.
4 Lecture: History of Typography 2  
5 Assignment 2 Review

Lecture: Interactive Page Substrates

Assignment 3 handed out.
6 Lecture: Typography and Me  
7 Assignment 3 Review

Lecture: Phototypography

Assignment 4 handed out.
8 Lecture: Difficult Typography  
9 Assignment 4 Review

Lecture: Concrete Typography

Assignment 5 handed out.
10 Designer Talk: Ori Kometani: MIT Press Design  
11 Assignment 5 Review

Designer Talk: Hara Kenay

 
12 Quiz 1

Lecture: Digital Ink

Assignment 6 handed out.
13 Lecture: Representing Form  
14 Assignment 6 Review

Lecture: Handmade Type

Assignment 7 handed out.
15 Designer Talk: Matthew Carter: Typographic Traditions  
16 Assignment 7 Review

Lecture: Unstable Type

Assignment 8 handed out.
17 Lecture: Kinetic Typography  
18 Design Activity 1

Lecture: Dynamic Legibility

Assignment 9 handed out.
19 Lecture: Dynamic Typography
(D. Small, Visiting Lecturer)
 
20 Assignment 8 Review

Lecture: _Travelling Type / Type on Vacation
_(D. Small, Visiting Lecturer)

 
21 Designer Talk: Suguru Ishizaki: Webcastable Typography  
22 Assignment 9 Review

Lecture: Poetry Book

Assignment 10 handed out.
23 Review of Assignment 1 to Assignment 9  
24 Creating a Tool  
25 Assignment 10 Review  
26 Exhibition Meeting  
27 MAS.962 Exhibition