In-class studio format
To prepare for the final critique next week, each student must work with a partner. For five minutes, observe as your partner navigates your prototypes. Please do not provide any verbal instructions. Analyze how they move through the site: Are they moving in the sequence you intended? Are they discovering the metadata? Is there enough content to engage for at least five minutes? For the person exploring, is the site engaging? Easy to use? Are there multiple layers of content? After discussing, swap roles.
Critique Format
For today's critique, we will spend ~10 minutes on each person. For the first ~7 minutes, everyone but the designer can talk. The classmate to your right will explore your project, projected for the entire class to see. During this time, we should try to have a conversation about the work, or at least describe it. Then, in the last ~3 minutes, the designer can respond to the conversation we just had.
For P2, create three unique directions for your typeface. Begin by sketching the fundamental letters we discovered in small group. Conceptually and formally, each direction should be uniquely different from each other. While sketching, consider how each typeface would exist as code and in the browser space. (Do this in InDesign or Illustrator and create a PDF to discuss on Tuesday.) Design with each typeface with a purpose in mind and be prepared to explain these concepts on Thursday.
For the selected direction, complete your typeface (in Illustrator, etc.) as much as possible. Here are the characters I would like you to have by then:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
or
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
(choose either lower or upper case)
0123456789 (numbers)
.?!,”“ (punctuation)
This is a very long article. We aren't going to read the whole thing, but you can if you want to.
Required parts:
Please create two unique proposals (using InDesign) for the website your typeface will live on. Each proposal should include at least three sections: specimen, showcase, hoverstate. We should be able to visualize your website proposal by looking at these three pages. How can your website's focus not only reinforce but push forward the concept of your typeface? Remember to upload the sketches to your class website.
Each designer will have 10 minutes to present their CSS Typeface and receive feedback to apply for the final week.
Critique Format
For today's critique, we will spend ~10 minutes on each person. For the first ~7 minutes, everyone but the designer can talk. The classmate to your right will explore your project, projected for the entire class to see. During this time, we should try to have a conversation about the work, or at least describe it. Then, in the last ~3 minutes, the designer can respond to the conversation we just had.
There is no class this week.
Each designer will have 10 minutes to present their Exhibition Microsite and receive feedback to apply for the final week.
Critique Format
For today's critique, we will spend ~10 minutes on each person. For the first ~7 minutes, everyone but the designer can talk. The classmate to your right will explore your project, projected for the entire class to see. During this time, we should try to have a conversation about the work, or at least describe it. Then, in the last ~3 minutes, the designer can respond to the conversation we just had.
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