Week 6 – Typography
Project Brief
Research a typeface from the list below and find out the designer/typographer who created it. You may wish to investigate a range of typefaces before choosing one. Find out as much as you can about the typeface in terms the reason for its production, how its classified and any specific characteristics which make it unique. This research should be presented in your Design Diary. (If we can't see the research we can't give you marks).
Research and visual development is vital for university work. Show evidence of how you developed your project including designs you do not use and including references and notes to inspiration and influences. You cannot get top grades without this.
Typefaces
- Avant Garde
- Baskerville
- Bembo
- Clarendon
- Dax
- Foundry Gridnik
- Franklin Gothic
- Futura
- Galliard
- Garamond (not Adobe Garamond)
- Goudy
- Helvetica
- Interstate
- Joanna
- Mrs Eaves
- Officina
- Optima
- Quay Sans
- Sabon
- Scala
- Sophie
- Souvenir
- Tephra
- Times New Roman
- Trajan
- Univers
Once you have chosen your preferred font you should try to show examples of where that font has been used, it could be online, in a poster, a magazine or advert.
Then provide your research on the typeface, who designed it and a list of other fonts the designer has created. Your project should be presented on your Design Diary.