Spring '25

Anatomy of Type "Grand Paradiso"

Anatomy of Typography Poster

Brief: Create a poster that could be used to educate a beginner about the anatomy of type.

Include: “Anatomy of Type”, Mallory Heim, 2025, Emporia State University, and the following terms: arm, ascender, bowl, counter (both open and closed), crossbar, descender, shoulder, spine, stroke, tittle

Technical: Adobe Illustrator, 12” x 18”, CMYK

Personal Monogram

Brief: Create a personal monogram. The designs can be crafted using existing typefaces, modified typefaces, and/or hand-crafted typefaces.

Include: your initials (2-4 letters)

Technical: Adobe Illustrator, 8.5” x 11”, Process Color

MCH Monogram
Mustard Bottle squeezing a "M"

Word + Graphic

Brief: Illustrate a word by combining the word and its related image. Use representational subject-matter for imagery. Create a visually and thematically effective style of presentation. Focus on an aesthetically and conceptually pleasing sense of interaction between type and imagery.

Include: the word "mustard" and a graphical representation of that word

Technical: Adobe Illustrator, 11” x 8.5”, Black and White (no color or levels of gray)

Text Box

Brief: Design a box that incorporates the information from your Gill Sans Research assignment.

Include: Must be primarily typography-based and incorporate the typeface Gill Sans.

Technical: Adobe Illustrator, Artboard Size: 19" x 12.6", Finished Box Size: 3" x 3" x 3", CMYK

Personal Portfolio

Brief: Design a 16-page, saddle stitch book in Adobe InDesign to showcase some of your design work from this semester. Use the Van de Graaf guides as a guiding force for the elements on each page.

Include: Table of Contents, Page Numbers, Name, AR340 Type and Design Portfolio, Spring 2025, Previous Design Work

Technical: Primary Software: Adobe InDesign, Secondary Software: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, 16 pages (self cover), Finished Trim Size: 5.5" x 8.5", Full Bleed (.25" bleed), Saddle Stitch Binding, PDF File Format (with bleed and trim marks), CMYK

Spotlight Magazine

Brief: Design a magazine cover story including the front cover and a 3-page spread of the cover story for Spotlight Magazine's article, "A Rich Legacy."

Include: the text, photography, and graphics provided

Technical: Primary Software: Adobe InDesign, Secondary Software: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, 4 pages (front cover + 3-page article), facing pages, 8.5” x 11”, full bleed, CMYK