I am an ENFP
Apparently Adaptive Path is into the Jung Typology test. I was urged to take it, and according to the test, I’m an ENFP: Extraverted (56%), intuitive (50%), feeling (25%), and perceiving (22%). The percentages are strength of preferences. Qualitative analysis of your type formula You are: moderately expressed extravert moderately expressed intuitive personality moderately expressed [...]
Grad Type Final Crit
For our final grad type class, we had to print our final project, a poster for a fictitious event at the MoMA, and present our identity projects. We spent most of the second half of the semester working on the identity project, of which the main deliverable was business cards. However, we also needed to [...]
Type Calendar
As I mentioned before, my typography class has been a challenge for me. Next week all of the projects from the first half of the course are due, as we will be switching instructors from Karen Moyer to Kristin Hughes. Our last project is designing a calendar. For whatever reason, I got a billion ideas [...]
Me and Type
For six weeks I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve been studying typography. On occasion, I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve produced something halfway to halfway decent as a result of some happy accident or a course of placement and treatment that did not necessarily follow from any typographic prowess. In the words of own of my more honest classmates, ?¢‚Ǩ?ìyour type sucks.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù Indeed, it does. [...]
Design Studio and Grad Type
I’ve mostly been talking about my Design Seminar class with Dick Buchanan and my Interaction and Visual Interface Design with John Zimmerman because those classes involve more discussion of ideas, which are easier to write about. My other two classes, Design Studio with Dan Boyarski and Graduate Type with Karen Moyer (and later Kristin Hughes), [...]
Debating About Courses
As an interaction design student, I have four courses that I was automatically signed up for, all of which are required. One of the courses, Design Computing, is primarily as Flash course. As I have designed and developed with Flash for many years, I got this course waived. I then signed up for Graduate Typography. [...]
Playing it Safe
While I was quite happy with my poster yesterday, today is just seemed okay. I had a suspicion that it was too safe. It worked well, but I felt like I didn’t really push myself. Type Poster Stacie essentially confirmed my suspicion when I asked her. She also commented that I seem fairly familiar with [...]
Type Poster Complete
It’s amazing how each week we go from nothing to a full-blown production. On Monday it seems implausible that we will actually accomplish the task given to us. This week I went from arranging magazine cutouts on an 8×11 piece of paper, to arranging an 11-page document on a 30×72 poster. Last week I could [...]
Grid Systems Project
Our project for the week is to use supplied text in the context of a large poster (30″x72″), a book, or a website. Because I have lots of web experience, I was not allowed to choose the website, so I chose the poster. The supplied text is about 10 pages, so putting all that content [...]
Communication Design Fundamentals
This week of my design fundamentals course at CMU Stacie Rohrbach is introducing us to communication design. Stacie gave us an overview of grids, fonts, and legibility versus readability. A point I found interesting was that for three of the four types of grids (manuscript, column, and modular), Stacie said you can set up the [...]
Richard L. Gregory and Me
Okay, so it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s day three of design school, and I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m writing about it yet again. Today I felt even more excited about the path that I’ve taken. I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m learning stuff and it’s fun. I doubt I will keep up my blogging about the coursework, but I don’t think I really want to, because as I [...]
Visualogic and Introductions
Today I was introduced to the idea of typographic hierarchy and visualogic, which was defined as the cognitive relationship between any two lines and groups of text, and the way those relationships are reflected visually. I also received my first assignment meant to explore typographic hierarchy. After years of arranging text into meaningful and digestible [...]