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In-class work:

notan exercise
grid_exercise.ai
unity.ai
golden rectangle for class
facial proportions, and the golden section

Assignment Sheets:

The logos - abstracted!
Repetition- Pattern making
Balance, unity, and the grid
Typographic self-portrait and type people
Final- 2 posters, one with restrictions, one without

Quiz / Review:

Quiz #1 - Pos/Neg space, form and relationship between form, repetition, symmetry, grids, formal compositions
Quiz #2 - geometry of design take home quiz, no review needed!
Quiz #3 - color and typography with a side of Illustrator

Lecture Notes:

notes #1 - pos/neg space, unit forms, super-unit forms,repetition, symmetry
notes #2 - 3 types of comps, formal comps, grids
notes #3 - informal comps, illusion of 3-d, unity, balance
notes #4 - color mixing, color and light, resolution and bit-depth

Design Files :

Conceptual Elements (and a smaller version)
Planes
Relational Elements
Relationship between forms
Grid structures
Super units.
Definitions of Basic Design Terms

Pythagoras and the Golden Section - how Pythagoras figured it out
The Fibonacci number sequence applied to a rectangle.
How to Draw the Golden Section Rectangle (and the ellipse, and the isosceles triangle that fits inside)
Pythagoras' Lute (or the Lute of Pythagoras)
How to draw a Root 2 Rectangle , 2 ways
Examples of geometric design (folder)

Typography parts of a font (Illustrator file)
History of type presentation (.swf) (has sound)
Tracking, leading, kerning.
Type Style Examples (html page)
The 7 Deadly Sins of Type

Color Schemes (GIF)
Jasper Johns "Afterimage Experiment"

Adobe Illustrator Shortcuts, Tips, and Tricks