Thursday, February 21, 2008

2.21.08.

-inside of brochure layout demo
-grading brochure's next week

**march 4th & 6th no classes

Notes:
expanded-a font that is stretched horizontally
condensed-a font that is stretched vertically
widow-a word broken by a hyphen over two lines
orphan-one word alone on a line

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

2.12.08.

Typography Lesson;

Preferred Sans Serif

Futura-Medium
Futura-CondensedMedium
Futura-CondensedExtraBold

MetaPlusMedium-Roman

Univers-Medium
Univers-Bold
Univers-MediumItalic

LucidaSans
LucidaSans-Italic
LucidaSans-Demi

Optima-Italic
Optima-BoldItalic
Optima-Regular

HelveticaNeue-BoldItalic
HelveticaNeue
HelveticaNeue-Bold

NewsGothicMT
NewsGothicMT-Bold
NewsGothicMT-Italic

GillSans
GillSans-Italic

Preferred Serif Text

TimesNewRomanPSMT
TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT
TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT

CenturySchoolbook
CenturySchoolbook-Bold
CenturySchoolbook-Italic

Rockwell-Bold
Rockwell-Italic
Rockwell

Palatino-Roman
Palatino-Italic
Palatino-Bold

Garamond-Italic
Garamond-Bold
Garamond

Friday, February 8, 2008

Designs I'm currently loving.


awesome stairs.



Bar Code Building!!!



hang your coat up!





Made from a vintage tennis skirt.


Mod lighting.

Lace as an architectural element?


Airspace Tokyo by Beige Architecture and Proces2

Thursday, February 7, 2008

2.7.08.

Today:
-Demo: grid (in Quark)
-Create grid
-Do layout
-Start work on paper

Making a monochrome lighter is called a "tint"
i.e; black --> gray: a tint of black.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

2.5.08

Note to self;
Design blogs to check out:
http://www.treehugger.com/design_architecture/
http://www.aside.in/blog/
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/

Koolhaas Photos


Rem Koolhaas
http://www.pritzkerprize.com/full_new_site/koolhaas_jurorcomments.htm


Seattle Central Library
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:SCL3.JPG


Seattle Central Library
http://time-blog.com/looking_around/2007/08/anguished_architect_alert.html


Serpentine Gallery Pavillion
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2006/11/past_serpentine_gallery_pavili.html


Torre Bicentenario
http://alivianate.com/foronuevo/showthread.php?t=2315


Casa Da Musica
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Casa-da-musica.jpg



Netherlands Dance Theater
http://www.stroom.nl/activiteiten/tentoonstelling.php?t_id=2582769