Assignment 2

Create bottom-line type-only department and feature templates.

Remember to print and bring with you to crit next Tuesday (10.4).

OBJECTIVES

We want to see the depth and breadth of your type exploration and choices for both templates. This means taking the time to experiment with many different typefaces—serifs, sans, slab, script, hand-lettering, etc. Keep in mind that your type choices need to make sense for your magazine and audience, not just look good.

PARTICULARS (UPDATED 10.1)

• use no more than three typeface combinations per template

• aim for two typefaces per template, especially feature

• try to use the third typeface for department rubric

• bring all printouts from previous week to next class

• define magazine size/dimensions

• use 9x12 column grid

• use type only (no imagery or grey boxes)

• experiment with many type combinations (at least 20 per template)

• keep track of typefaces used

• post your work/process to your blog

feature template includes:

• headline

• subhead

• byline

• text type

• pull quote

• folio

• optional drop cap

• optional first line treatment (caps, bold)

department template includes:

• rubric

• headline

• subhead

• byline

• text type

• pull quote

• hangline

• credit line

• folio

LINKS / OTHER

• check out indesign tutorials (thanks, christy)

• try the grid calculator (thanks, gui)

• buy a ream of good quality printer paper to test out your templates

• buy a schaedler rule

Portfolio and Magazine Publishing

You want to get your portfolio or mag published? Check out these links:

• BLURB
• LULU (quality is not always good)
• BOOKSURGE/Createspace (through Amazon)
• MAGCLOUD

For online publishing check out:

• ISSUU (New York Times "T" Magazine uses it)

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World of Logotypes

Highlights from a mid-seventies edition of The World of Logotypes. Eric Carl has graciously posted a large portion of his own copy of this out-of-print book on flickr.
via Aqua Velvet

You can buy a copy of World of Logotypes at Alibris.
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20 tweetable truths about magazines

20 facts about magazines tweetable in 140 characters or less. This video was created by Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) and the type set in Gotham all caps.
enjoy!
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Blind Text Generator

Don't present your design layouts with Lorem Ipsum, instead use Blind Text Generator.

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Free Fonts - FontFabric

File

Quad

Mod

FontFabric is featuring nice fonts and some are for free for both personal and commercial use.

To view and download go to, FontFabric.

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Priest+Grace - inspiration

Priest+Grace is a New York based design firm.
Robert Priest had been design director of Condé Nast Portfolio.
He has served as Esquire’s art director twice, design director of House & Garden, creative director of GQ, design director of US Weekly, and design director of Newsweek. He recently served as the creative director on the launch of O At Home and created four special issues for InStyle magazine.
He is the co-founder of American Photography and American Illustration.
He has received several Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration from the Society of Publication Designers, Art Directors Club, AIGA...
To learn more about him and their work please go to priestandgrace.

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Daily Drop Cap

reat idea! Use them, don't use them, but gotta love them... Thanks to typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische for handcrafting these beautiful letters and sharing them with us through her blog, dailydropcap.com.
have fun.
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Top 10 Type Blogs According to Eye Magazine

Golden age of type blogs?
A whistle-stop tour through the top ten typographic weblogs
Published on Tuesday, 14 April, 2009 9:31 am Here, at last, is our Easter week type special: the top ten type blogs, chosen by an anonymous panel of industry experts using strictly scientific principles (honest).
1. ilovetypography.com
Japan-based designer John D. Boardley created his blog in order to make people more aware of the typography that’s around them. It’s updated regularly and is very active on Twitter and Flickr.
2. typeneu.com
A huge repository for all things to do with contemporary design with a strong typographic bias.
3. swisslegacy.com
Swiss designer Xavier Encinas with his very Swiss blog focused on typography, graphic design and inspiritional matters.
4. typography.com
The blog of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones.
5. blog.typoretum.co.uk
A blog about typography, letterpress and printing history by ex-Central Saint Martins student Justin Knopp.
6. typophile.com
A forum / blog system with discussion boards dedicated to all areas of type design, from identifying fonts to interviews with typographic designers.
7. slanted.de
A weblog published by MAGMA Brand Design from Karlsruhe, Germany about typography and layout. It complements their printed quarterly magazine.
8. ministryoftype.co.uk
Brighton-based designer Aegir Hallmundur’s blog about type, typography, lettering, calligraphy and other related things.
9. spiekermann.com
Erik Spiekermann, self-confessed sufferer of ‘Typomania’, gives his typographic perspective on a variety of things in his Spiekerblog.
10. typetheory.com
Another aggregator that pulls together all manner of posts on contemporary typography, created by US designer Ty Wilkins.

The latest issue of Eye (no. 71 vol. 18) is a Type special.
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Here is a link to Peter Buchanan-Smith's site. http://buchanansmith.com

He has some really great, clean designs, some interesting typography and nice layouts. 

Check out his work for Paper Magazine for some inspiration for your own mags.

Also, take a look at this link for some other layout solutions (more bookish than magazine)

http://www.lehni-trueb.ch/

few more links for you guys - 

http://typobloger.blogspot.com

very useful - 

as seen in class - check out these posts:

April 5, 2009 - font manager Q&A. (a font manager is NECESSARY for the fonts you all will be getting. sites to try: www.linotype.com, www.extensis.com, www.insidersoftware.com (font agent pro)

November 2008 - Type crimes and Indesign crash course by Ellen Lupton. (dont forget to get Thinking with Type!)

October 10, 2008 - Making better page grids.

October 7, 2008 - information on how to build a type library.

other useful type sites:

http://typophile.com

http://www.identifont.com  (can help you identify fonts you like but arent sure what that are)

Hi guys - hope everyone is coming along ok with their assignments. Here are some helpful links, and I will be posting more a bit later, so check back. Please let me know if you have any questions as you move along. :)

First off - everything you could want to know about publication design, and Gen's experiences in the industry. Look it over for insight (and reminders from class on wednesday) on how to make you magazine great. (click on the downloadable pdf "publication design")
http://www.scribd.com/share/upload/12539628/2mwmkhv27gp9kp6zfxe9

practical:
http://www.thegridsystem.org
check this out for help with your grids. there are download-able templates for InDesign that could be of assistance if it meets your specs.


inspirational:
GOOD magazine.
www.goodmagazine.com
awesome social commentary.

Own Magazine
www.own-magazine.com
great photography work.

MagCloud

Get your magazines printed with MagCloud...

"We’re MagCloud and we want to help you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and we'll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more."

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links - inspiration

http://www.stjoost.nl/
http://www.rijksakademie.nl/uk_index.htm
http://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/
http://janvaneyck.nl/
http://www.konstfack.se/konstfack/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=10&t=1&l=en
http://www.cranbrookart.edu/Pages/AboutUs.html
http://art.yale.edu/132a2

The Post Family

Based in Chicago, The Post Family is a collaboration of artists who basically post inspirational
stuff. They all have different aesthetics so the result is a vibrant variety of posts...
They also sell a collection of limited edition handmade art.

HTML Poster by Scott Thomas

Also check out one of their posts featuring new Matériel Magazine.

Neo2 Magazine

These department spreads are from Neo2 magazine, Spain's art, fashion and lifestyle magazine.

They have a fun style and you can download the fonts they use throughout the magazine for free and some pdf specials as well. Click here for their blog.

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Blurb

Do you want to make your own books? Check this out.

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Wired Magazine

Wired Magazine's all type covers.

Studio8Design

Based in central London, Studio8 was established in 2005 by Matt Willey and Zoë Bather. Working with clients both large and small, in the UK and overseas, Studio8 produces a diverse range of work across multiple disciplines.

Posters produced to raise awareness of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest for the US-based charity Rainforest Action Network (RAN). wwww.ran.org.
Graphis Poster Annual 2008-2009 Platinum Award: ‘BREATHE’ Poster

The design and art direction of ‘Plastique’ magazine, a quarterly fashion magazine published in London.
SPD, New YorkPUB43, 2008
Merit: ‘Plastique Issue 1’ Cover

‘Plastique’ magazine

SPD, New YorkPUB43, 2008

Merit: ‘Plastique Issue 2’ Cover

Established 25 years ago ‘RA’ magazine is the UK’s leading arts quarterly and has the largest circulation of any art magazine in Europe. They re-designed the magazine in 2005 and continued to design and art direct each issue until 2008.

Design and art direction of ‘MAP’ magazine, a quarterly international arts magazine.