Schedule Overview

Week 01 ︎︎︎ 02/01/2022

• Syllabus︎
  
• Introduction to Project:What’s on Top of the Deck?︎
  
• Introduction to Project: Make a dang font (rite quick)︎

• HW︎︎︎

• Show & Tells ︎︎︎ Amy, Blu, Mel, Lindsay
  
• Work on and complete Project: Make a dang font (rite quick)︎
  
• Work on and complete Project:What’s on Top of the Deck?︎
  
  

Week 02 ︎︎︎ 02/08/2022

• Review cards and Project: Make a dang font (rite quick)︎
  
• Introduction to Glyphs and FontForge
  
  
• HW︎︎︎

• Show & Tells ︎︎︎ Joe, Jesse, Isabella, JJ
  
• If your copy of Glyphs is crashing please let me know

• What made it crash
  
• Your operating system
  
• if you get a specific error message
  

• Revise Project: Make a dang font (rite quick)︎ based on in class feedback
  
  (Whiteboard from 02/08/2022)
  
  

Week 03 ︎︎︎ 02/15/2022

• Glyphs & FontForge, pt.2
  
• Introduction to Project: Make a dang typeface (not quick)︎
• Introduction to Project: Share a dang font file︎
• Watch & Discuss Linus Boman video How this font became the face of Chinese food in America︎
  
  

• HW ︎︎︎

• Show & Tells ︎︎︎ Rachel, James, Gwen, Susana
  
• Start work on  Project: Make a dang typeface (not quick)︎
  
• Start work on Project: Share a dang font file︎
  
  (Whiteboard from 02/15/2022)

Week 04 ︎︎︎ 02/22/2022

• Review & Discuss Project: Share a dang font file︎
  (group 1 ︎︎︎Blu, Jesse, Lindsay, Amy, Mel, Alex, Isabela)
• Knitting Circle: Calligraphy pt.1, “Square” Capitals︎
  


• HW︎︎︎

• Knitting Circle: Calligraphy pt.1, “Square” Capitals︎practice (3 pages of letter practice, 2 sentences digitally cleaned up and printed out)
• Be ready to discuss ideas, concepts and sketches for Project: Make a dang typeface (not quick)︎
  
• Show & Tells ︎︎︎Alex, Owen, Michelle, James

(Whiteboard from 02/22/2022)

Week 05 ︎︎︎ 03/01/2022

• Knitting Circle: Calligraphy pt.1, “Square” Capitals︎review 
  
• Review & Discuss Project: Share a dang font file︎ (group 2  ︎︎︎ Owen, James, Susana, Rachel, JJ, Joe, Michelle)
  
• Discuss progress, ideas, concepts, sketches for Project: Make a dang typeface (not quick)︎
  
• Glyphs & FontForge review, Review
  
  
• HW︎︎︎

• Show & Tells ︎︎︎Alex, Owen, Michelle
  
  (Whiteboard from 03/01/2022)
  

Week 06︎︎︎ 03/08/2022

Week 07 ︎︎︎ 03/15/2022

• Calligraphy session, Foundational hand
• Watched James Edmondson’s Changing Out of Your Typographic Sweatpants︎
  
  

• HW︎︎︎

• In Foundational Hand, write three more pages and then upload 2 “designed” “sentences” and be ready to have them printed for discussion in class
• Be ready (glyphs files etc./more drawings sketches) to discuss state of final project
• Show & Tells ︎︎︎JJ, Blu, Mel
  
  

Week 08  ︎︎︎ 03/22/2022

• Review Calligraphy HW
• Review status of final projects (random selection of 5 to 6 people with an emphasis on people who prviously have not discussed project status)
• HW︎︎︎

• Show & Tells ︎︎︎Alex, Lindsay, Owen, Michelle
  
  (Whiteboard from 03/22/2022)
  

Week 09 ︎︎︎ 03/29/2022

• Review Final Project font progress (one-on-one)

• HW︎︎︎

• Show & Tells ︎︎︎Gwen, Isabela, James, Susana
  
  (Whiteboard from 03/29/2022)
  

Week 10 ︎︎︎ 04/05/2022

• Review status of final project
• Review calligraphy from last week
• Go over Resources page
• Introduction Project: Calligraphy Recital
• Review drawing Bezier Curves

• HW︎︎︎

• Show & Tells ︎︎︎Rachel, Amy, Mel, Michelle
  
  

Week 11 ︎︎︎ 04/12/2022

Week 12 ︎︎︎ 04/19/2022

• Calligraphy session, ornaments + blackletter majuscules
  
• Glyphs & FontForge review
  
• Final Project font progress

• HW︎︎︎

• Show & Tells ︎︎︎JJ, Blu, Lindsay, Owen
  
  s(Whiteboard for 04/19/2022)
  

Week 13 ︎︎︎ 04/26/2022

• Collective type review, pt.1

• Owen, Isabella, Alex, Blu, Lindsay, Mel

• HW︎︎︎

• Show & Tells ︎︎︎Gwen, Joe, Susana, Alex
  
  (Whiteboard from 04/26/2022)
  

Week 14  ︎︎︎ 05/03/2022

• Calligraphy Recital!
• Collective type review, pt.2
  Joe, Blu, Rachel, Jesse, Amy, Michelle, James, JJ
  
  

• HW︎︎︎

• Show & Tells ︎︎︎Rachel, Isabela, Jesse, James

(Whiteboard from 05/03/2022)

Week 15 ︎︎︎ 05/1

• Final Project Critiques, pt.1
  
• Michelle, Lindsay, Alex, James, Isabela, Mel, JJ

Week 16 ︎︎︎ 05/17/2022

• Final Project Critiques, pt.2
  
• Blu, Susana, Owen, Jesse, Joe, Rachel, Amy
• Informal class feedback
• Havdalah