EXERSICE IN RESTRICTIONS
GD I – TYPOGRAPHY
FALL 2018
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

For this assignment, students were asked to create three (3) posters for a lecture series about contemporary design. Students needed to carefully consider the typographic hierarchy of the information presented. A viewer should be able to easily understand the calendar of events and to quickly learn who the main speakers are. The posters must also convey the excitement of contemporary design to an audience of designers and students. Student posters must be purely typographic. Students may use colors, shapes, and lines as well as text.

– RESTRICTIONS –

• Poster #1

  Create a poster using the computer only and one of the softwares of your preference.

• Poster #2

  Create the poster using the computer and the scanner. Shapes, lines and other elements must be scanned. Then you will bring them into your design and manipulate them further. Type will be digital, just like in poster #1.

• Poster #3

  Create the poster using the computer, scanner and your own handwriting . Shapes, lines and other elements must be scanned. Then you will bring them into your designs and manipulate them further. Choose one aspect of the typography included in the poster (ex. the title, names of lecturers etc) and use your handwriting as type. You can write, scan and then incorporate that into your design, or you can print and write directly on top of your printed poster.

* The content used for student posters is borrowed by an exercise created by Ellen Lupton found on Thinking with Type, in the section “Tools for Teachers.”