Your Assignment _Type Specimen Book

type specimen Book specs:

1. choose twelve typefaces not found on your computer
2. design a sixteen page signature using those twelve typefaces
3. print to size (you may choose the size)
4. bind

research:

1. Purchase ellen lupton’s book “thinking with type” and read it!
2. Thorough understanding and application of the first two chapters, “letter” and “text”.
3. Here’s a link to some of her students’ projects: http://www.papress.com/thinkingwithtype/teachers/type_spec_project.htmii. go there. download her students’ pdfs. have a look.
4. Download David Berlow's type Specimen pdf http://www.fontbureau.com/books/dbspecimens.
   

process:

1. Design a sixteen page signature using twelve typefaces not found on your computer.
2. Choose 3 serif display faces, 3 sans serif display faces, 3 serif text faces, 3 sans serif text faces.
3. Use a text that's related to the subject matter of your magazines.
4. Set (and kern properly) display faces and text blocks
5. Be inventive with the form and binding of your signature

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