Monday, Sept. 16

Here is your quote guys!

I am type! Of my earliest ancestry neither history nor relics remain. The wedge-shaped symbols impressed in plastic clay by Babylonian builders in the dim past, foreshadowed me; from them, on through the hieroglyph of the ancient Egyptians, down to the beautiful manuscript letters of the medieval scribes, I was in the making. With the golden vision of the ingenious Gutenberg, who first applied the principle of casting me in metal, the profound art of printing with movable types was born to countless thousands. I bring into the light of day the precious stores of knowledge and wisdom long hidden in the grave of ignorance.
I coin for you the enchanting tale, the philosopher's moralizing, and the poet's phantasies; I enable you to exchange the irksome hours that come, at times, to everyone, for sweet and happy hours with books-golden urns filled with all the manna of the past. In books I present to you a portion of the eternal mind caught in its progress through the world, stamped in an instant, and preserved for eternity. Through me, Socrates and Plato, Chaucer and the Bards, become your faithful friends whoever surround and minister to you. I am the leaden army that conquers the world. Cold, rigid, and implacable I may be, yet the first impress of my face brought the divine world. I am type!

Please have your 8 posters printed for the start of class on Monday. 11x17 in color using the typographic systems that you learned on Friday. Use the quote to go across all poster set. Make sure you limit your font to one family and limit your color scheme to minimum of three. 

UPDATE: Guys, I threw out my back this weekend and I'm pretty sure that I'm only going to be able to push it to my first class and meeting today. So here's what I need for Wednesday this week. Those of you who haven't turned in books turn those in on Wednesday. Have your poster sets printed and finished for Wednesday. Use class time today as a work time to get the following project for Wednesday. 

Create a type poster of a movie quote. Choose a typographic system and font that fits the voice of the quote and try and have the text animate the tone and voice of the quote. Have these printed on (11x17) in color by Wednesday. There are several of these examples on last years class behance account if you would like to see some examples.