Week 12 – class exercise
Class 11 – Text and Typography
Lecture
- Time and motion (from last week)
- Typography introduction
Workshop
- Typing in Adobe Illustrator
- Design with your name
- Shape with Pathfinder
Reference
Helvetica – the film
Resources
You can use the following text by James Joyce for typography exercise.
Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance. On Saturday evenings when my aunt went marketing I had to go to carry some of the parcels. We walked through the flaring streets, jostled by drunken men and bargaining women, amid the curses of labourers, the shrill litanies of shop-boys who stood on gaurd by the barrels of pigs’ cheeks, the nasal chanting of street-singers, who sang a come-all-you about O’Donovan Rossa, or a ballad about the troubles in our native land. These noises converged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes. Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
Class 10 – Time and motion
Presentation
- Each of the student has 5 minutes to present.
- Other students participate to ask questions in the next 5 minutes.
- Photo-taking of the A2 artwork
Lecture topics
- Motion in painting
- Motion information in digital media
- Spatialize time in 2D art
- Temporize space in animation
Reference
Tim McMillan
Zbigniew Rybczynski
Paul Debevec
Bill Viola
Microsoft Photosynth
Class 9 – Abstract Animation Workshop
Tools and materials needed:
1. Camera + Card reader
2. Tripod
3. Cardboard
4. Paper roll
5. Cutter and Tape (or masking tape)
6. Drawing tools
Some references:
Square Dance by René Jodoin
Boogie Boodle by Norman McLaren
Begone Dull Care by Norman McLaren
Lignes Horizontales by Norman McLaren
Lignes Verticales by Norman McLaren
An Abstract Autobiography
Reminder: Class 8
Dear all,
Please upload your previous classwork (color/texture and perspective) to moodle before the class.
Thanks!
See you!
Justin
Class 07 – Information Graphics
Workshop
Illustrator tutorial
Sample
Sample images
Lecture
- Ways to organize information
- Map
- Tree
- Network
- Graph
- Table
- Time series
- Common errors
Exercise
- Timetable
Timetable
Redesign the following train timetable.
Original timetable design
Powerpoint presentation material
Class 06 – Visual Information
Assignment 1
Lecture
- Common visual attributes
- Visual semantics
- Creative examples
Workshop
- Illustrator introduction
Exercise
- Form a group of 4 to 5 students.
- Identify a stranger in the campus.
- Follow the stranger for a few minutes.
- Note down the places he/she visits with details.
- Create a journal map of the event and the description of the stranger.
Reference
Dead man on campus title sequence
Powerpoint presentation material
