Typography

In the speech “ You’ve got to find what you love “ , CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios Steve Jobs discusses three stories about his own life and he finds a way to connect his life experiences with reality . He states this speech at Stanford University to explain to the students the three man points they will face throughout their life journey. Steve’s first story is about him not graduating from college . Steve states that it's okay to not know what you want to do with your…

graphic design and must be used to lift up and encourage others. The importance of the small things becomes big and this book takes that very seriously. The connection of these things allows a reader to emotionally and visually connects also. Typography plays a role that is important in the success of an artwork. Research provides a look into today’s culture and trends, which tells one about the focal point of design graphically, Graphic Design: The New Basics contains valuable information…

El Lissitzky was a Russian artist who, from 1919 to 1925, created pieces of artwork that he called prouns. But after 1925, Lissitzky switched from creating prouns, the L2 stage, to creating heavily Stalinist and propagandistic works, the L3 stage. This abrupt switch seems like a great disparity from Lissitzky’s earlier works, but Yve-Alain Bois, an art historian, claims that this switch is not as unanticipated as it seems. Prouns, though never explicitly defined, exist somewhere in the realm…

Bodoni (b. 1740-1813, Saluzzo Piedmont, Italy) was an Italian printer and a designer of typefaces still used today. He was a third generation printmaker who modeled his type designs after Pierre Simon Fournier, "...but later felt inspired by the typography of John Baskerville" (Famous Graphic Designers). He was at the front of industrialized print making. The Bodoni typeface, according to Bodoni: The History of Being Awesome, is, "...an easily recognizable Romantic typeface with a vertical…

The typeface I am picking is the Arial font. The Arial typeface was drawn in 1982 by designer Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders. It was original called Sonoran Sans Serif and was renamed Arial in 1992. Arial was made similar to the Helvetica font design, some say copying it for thickness and height. It started off as a bitmap font. The bitmap were high-resolution laser comp fonts that were used as a starting point to sample down give it a 240dpi or 300dpi font. Arial was original…

as the text declares to the readers as being text and having fictional aspects. Now the question is why is the text so adamantly screaming at the reader that it is a work of fiction? The novel itself is a labyrinth “elaborate [...] in colour and typography, in code and layout” supplementing the reader with numerous opportunities to explore different paths and within each path offers the reader unlimited…

As an individual, I find myself possessing many of the desired skills and strengths you have specified. Such as my ability, for being an insightful and motivated individual, whom possess a proactive and devoted attitude towards all projects/tasks that I am involved in. From this, by attending a BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma course for TV & Film - in which I achieved a Triple Distinction* qualifacation - It allowed me to gain a strong understanding for the TV & Film industry, throughout the…

plan, analyze and deliver innovative solutions. Most programs include externship or internship opportunities for students to can gain hands-on experience by applying their newly learned skills and knowledge. Common coursework include animation, typography, composition, advertising production, instructional design and interactive communication. Students will learn how to produce everything from posters to brochures to package…

My first experience with art was an obsession with how I could photograph a flower, its beauty shown through my great lack of technique and knowledge of photography. This experience was important because it allowed me to start to see the world through an artist’s eye. With more exploration I moved beyond the flower and began photographing other subjects. What I was photographing was mostly nature, very clichéd imagery. I fell into the trap that many High School students do. It…

My biography is about an inventor named Johannes Gutenberg which is short for Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg. Johannes Gutenberg was born in the year of 1395 in Mainz, Germany. Gutenberg's nationality was German. He was born in a modest family. I do know he had siblings, but I could not find any information about their names or anything else. Gutenberg was the third son of Freile zum Gensfleisch and Else Wirick zum Gutenberg which was his father's second wife. He got the name…