Learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to identify, specify, and classify printing types and fonts of historical and cultural significance through completion of a final exam on typographic history.
- Students will be able to explain the significance of typographic history, with an emphasis on learning the ways in which typography, as a discipline, has been influenced by the economic, social and/or political conditions of a place and time, through participation in group seminars, submission of annotated project bibliographies, and writing of project text.
- Students will demonstrate skills using typography as a component of visual communication, through submission of design process documentation and final project work.
- Students will locate typography critically within the disciplines of fine art and linguistics, and demonstrate use of typography to meet formal and conceptual objectives within those disciplines, through visual presentation of project plans and submission of final work.
- Students will demonstrate fluency with typography as a tool for cultural representation, in particular, the process through which typography represents the identity values of its producers and users, through visual representation of conceptual project plans and submission of final project work.
Link to Exercise Brief
Demonstration Files [.ai]
Letter Fountain / Names + Classifications
Anatomy of Letterforms
Thinking with Type
Ellen Lupton's Classification System
Office Hours
T + TH 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
by appointment
Stacy Asher
Assistant Professor of Art
211 Woods Art Building
Department of Art + Art History
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
stacyasher@unl.edu
stacyasher.com