The Beehive

I started out wanting to make a miniature book based on microtypography. The more I learned about it, the more I realized that all the components that make microtypography are along the same lines of macro, or "normal" typography. I decided to move towards making an all around book on letter spacing and all of the different terms, or just a book about typographic terms. This is some of my research on Microtypography that I am going to incorporate into my new book. Microtypography is concerned with the more individual features of letterforms Macro-typography is all about how typography is arranged on a web page. Macro-typographical techniques can be achieved on CSS but we must also bear in mind that the Web itself is changing rapidly. Macro-typography is all about how paragraphs and groups of sentences are placed together and how they appear on a page. Microtypography has to do with the details; setting the right glyph, getting the appropriate kerning and tracking, and

Project One is a consecutive project that is due every week with the same rules. It is three pieces that are 11in x 17in. These three pieces (three produced each week) has to be based on one word that has a lot of meanings. Week Four of Project One was due September 19. For this project I decided to do on body modification. I went to Supernatural Body Piercing in Westport and got two models. The third model got sick and I unfortunately never heard back from him, so I used my own portrait to use as the third piece. The first three are the original photos I took, and beneath that is how I presented / installed. Below is the next day, where people walked by and broke the strings. I then began to take the pins off of each one, leaving it like this

This is from class Wednesday 9/14, where we started our new project: Monday Prototype. The assignment is to design a solution to Monday, through a smart object, mobile screen, and prototype. The project is supposed to take us through an interactive design process, from screen to object, considering temporal media and human experiences. First we started with a mind map that we did individually, mapping out all of the different problems with Monday. I put some different color stars to some of the things that corresponded together. After that we had to partner up and compare mind maps. Brooke is my partner on this project, and we both had some of the same ideas for what we wanted to focus on. One of our first ideas had to deal with coffee, but we mainly focused on anger after we talked through the options. So, our idea was basically a "Shit List" where people could go through a series of questions that we thought could be humorous. We liked that this could be used

This post is going to be combining a few different class days in Visual Communication I. Wednesday 9/7 : We toured the Print Shop and got our information to print our final version of our Visual Order: Gestalt books. I did not get a desk crit with Emmy that day. Monday 9/12:  I was absent this day with a doctor's note, but I sent my mockup to Emmy, while others brought their printed mockups to class for group critiques. Wednesday 9/14:  This day we started our new project Monday Prototyping, which has it's own blog post. For Gestalt, I wanted to make this note to place the feedback I got on my mockup. Tyler Make body text lowercase. Words in capital letters have the same shape (a rectangle) so, they’re harder to distinguish Rethink horizontal lines, everything is already distinguishable in their own space Rethink border around both left and right side How to make everything more related First few pages have block behind text, but not the rest Emmy Too safe!

Project One is a consecutive project that is due every week with the same rules. It is three pieces that are 11in x 17in. These three pieces (three produced each week) has to be based on one word that potentially has a lot of meanings. Week Three of Project One was due September 12. For this project, I wanted to do something that didn't involve the human body. These aren't my best, and I wish I would have done better than this, but there are always good and bad projects! It's a way of learning. For these I decided to stick with somewhat blurry pictures of book burning, because I wanted people to figure it out themselves. I also did this, because I feel like coming back to this topic again in a future project one, where I can actually spend more time on it. Here are my three 11in x 17in:

Mostly my presentation in the first learning summary had a lot of the information I had researched. But I am placing more of my research here, as well as my work in progress. There might be more later that I will go in and add.  Leading Kerning Tracking Works on vertical space between lines Works only on specific letter pairs (Two at a time) Works on ranges of characters, even whole documents. Targeted Generalized It adjusts the spaces between specific letter pairs to adjust irregularity in spacing It uniformly affects the spacing between all the characters in a range of text. Types of Kerning: Auto (Metric) Optical Manual Letterspacing as a whole Adjusts the spacing to all letters Metric Kerning Metric or auto kerning is software defined. The designer has the least control over letters when using metric or auto kerning and the result can sometimes cause odd shapes between letter pairs, such as creating too little space in one instance and

This is from class on Wednesday 8/31. We had to find the rest of the definitions for the remaining terms which I will post underneath. While filling in remaining terms, we had to begin mockup for our Visual Order books. My digital mockup of my final book is posted here . Similarity When objects are related to one another by color, shape, or texture, viewers will group these individual elements together Proximity When the correlation of objects relies on how close the objects are to each other Closure When an object is incomplete, or not fully closed, but the overall shape can be perceived by filling in the missing information. Continuation When the viewer interprets a line of curve as a continuous path, rather than separate lines Figure / Ground The distinction and perception of objects that stand out from its background Symmetry / Order The impression that nothing in the composition is out of balance, missing, or wrong Asymmetrical Balance When unequal vi

Project One is a consecutive project that is due every week with the same rules. It is three pieces that are 11in x 17in. These three pieces (three produced each week) has to be based on one word that has a lot of meanings. Week Two of Project One was due was August 31, 2016, this is what I produced and installed in class. The first three are the original photos, and beneath that is how I actually installed them in class. By the time my class Image started, everyone was pretty tired so our teacher gave us 15 minutes to do whatever. In those 15 minutes I wanted to figure out a way for my pieces to stand out (not just rectangles on the wall), so I thought quickly on what to do. This is the first thing that came into my head and I could picture it perfectly, so I decided to quickly apply this to my work. Below are detail shots of each one. 

This is from class Monday 8/29. We had to create typographic versions of four Gestalt Principles we learned which are: similarity, proximity, continuity, and closure. We had to make 5 variations of these principles in illustrator to explore verbal visual meaning through breaking up the letterforms. After that we also had to do one more iteration of each constructed image in our chosen theme. After critique it was still hard for me to decide what to do. Everyone said they liked my pill images more than anything, but last year I worked with pills as my medium for a few projects, so I wanted to do a subject matter that was new to me. For the four iterations I went ahead and did the "link" downtown, but I changed my theme later. Anyway, those four pictures are added as well underneath my typographic versions. __________________________________________________________________________ Similarity Closure Proximity  Continuation