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Typography Two Assignments

Welcome to this blog! I (Lis Charman) teach at Portland State and coordinate the Graphic Design program and this blog is a collection of the Typography Two work developed by Portland State graphic design students (with a few extra curricular projects included). I teach Typography 2, a 10 week course that consists of two projects, first an experimental set of Type Constructions (part 1 & 2) and a Cultural Campaign project where students select a fictional or actual cultural organization to promote through print, out-of-home / advertising and motion. Find more information about the class assignments after the jump. Enjoy! 

Typographic Experiments + “Take It Further” | Spring 2011

In my typography class students experiment with ways to create letterforms and develop a series of typographic constructions. The topic is up to the student—the last part of the project asks students to recontextualize the experiments or “take them further”. Here are a few of the experimental projects…

Ryan Bush

Allison Berg

Allison Berg

Allison Berg

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Christine Blystone

 

Julian Gese

Kathleen Barnett

Kathleen Barnett

Kathleen Barnett

Kathleen Barnett

Kathleen Barnett

Alex Taylor

Alex Taylor

Type 2 Student Cultural Campaigns | Spring 2011

Ryan Bush’s Humbled Before An Endless Universe, a fictional campaign to promote Northwest Astronomical Society

Poster for Craftywonderland Campaign by Christine Blystone / Flappergirl

Ewen Wang’s Stumptown Dinosaur Training & Supply Co. campaign

 

ART 354 Student Cultural Campaigns // Winter 2011

Mix tape / teaser posters & backs of flyers / calendar by Bryan J. Morgan, Shakespeare meets punk rock!

Bryan Morgan’s completed flyer set.

Bryan Morgan, patches.

 Mix tape / cassette non-traditional idea by Bryan Morgan, Shakespeare meets punk rock!

To see his video click  

 

Krista Bradshaw’s animated / time-based promotion

Xel Moore's Portland's Choice Movie Madness

Xel Moore's Portland's Choice Movie Madness, poster

On the left is Steve Ebert’s campaign. On the right is Steve Ebert’s laser cut typography for the GDC!

Steve Ebert, What We See Here, public art installations, exhibits & talks. The laser cutter rule!

Steve Ebert, What We See Here, public art installations, exhibits & talks, laser cut slip cases.

Steve Ebert, What We See Here, public art installations, exhibits & talks, calendar (above & below)

Steve Ebert, What We See Here, public art installations, exhibits & talks, laser cut cards

Steve Ebert, What We See Here, public art installations, exhibits & talks, stencil kit and more!

Alex Brod!

Alex’s Sailing on Sunlight (Latin American Authors) booklet

Alex’s Sailing on Sunlight (Latin American Authors) non-trad Magical Realism Wheel

Alex’s Sailing on Sunlight (Latin American Authors) bookmarks
 

Colby Brooks, Wild Harvest

Colby Brooks, Wild Harvest, cover

Colby Brooks, Wild Harvest, cards

 

August Miller, Signal Amidst Noise.

Anthony Libonati, Jazz Festival, Non-trad/out-of-home media placement

Anthony Libonati, Jazz Festival, cover text treatment

Mimi Pham, Tango Festival

 

Jennifer Flake’s hikes…

Jennifer Flake’s hikes…

 

Typographic Treatments, Grids and Attention To Detail [Student Campaigns]

Students in typography two explore many visual forms of hand created / hand construsted typography and typefaces. The letterforms they generate are designed to give a visual voice to the their ideas / events.

Poetry In Your Pocket, Jordan Lessler's book/journal/calendar has beautiful attention to detail, strong grid, white space, hierarchy and care in all the delicate details. 

 

Amanda Benson uses gridded paper and sans serif type to express her campaign "Eat Less Meat" — she does a very good job of using the grid and organizing her information.

 
 

Rory Phillips’ Bard’Sploitation Shakespeare Film Series [Student Campaign]

 

 

 

Student Campaigns: Jasmine Silver: Inventing the Undefined

Title page of book of events

Detail of interior of book 

Type detail 

In-process interior pages 

In-process interior pages 

In-process pages 

 

 
flip book 

 
promotional packaging for lecture series event information and poster

 
 promotional packaging for lecture series event information and poster

Poster—the audience is invited to make it their own 

 Poster—the audience is invited to make it their own 

Poster—the audience is invited to make it their own  

 

Chalk—


   
Poster box exterior

 

More Typography Two Cultural Campaigns!

"Last Laugh Saturdays", NW Film Center, Student Campaign by Rachel Yoakum:

 

Madness | Obsession, The Portland Opera, By Katelin Delaney

Ecouture, PSU, Danielle Wilkins

Try Poe, Literary Arts, by Tess Whitehead

 

 

 

Kim Reede's "Film's To Die For" Film Festival

Belin Liu 24 Hour Theater [Student Campaign]

 

 

Krista Messer's Tales Retold [Student Campaign]