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