Comm Design

Your assignment this week is to gather materials, evaluate typefaces and develop an implementation strategy for your print publication prototype. Your images, color, type and grid structure should all advance the function as described in you Form and Function essay.

By Thursday, you will submit 4 proposed pages (2 full spreads). You will use the dummy sheets you make this week to help you complete the final magazine layout next week.

Here is more information on design of magazine spreads.

Source: Setting Body Text for Comfortable Reading

Eight Ways to Combine Typefaces

Four Techniques for Combining Fonts

10 Golden Rules You Should Live By When Combining Fonts

Good primers on the challenges and tricks of combining faces.

Clearview is out, Highway Gothic is (back) in. Critics want to know why.

Source: America’s Sudden U-Turn on Highway Fonts

Typographers not only enjoy drawing certain letters more than others, they are also, it turns out, more than happy to discuss their predilections.

Source: We asked 15 typographers to describe their favorite letterforms. Here’s what they told us.

The type designer, creator of the Georgia and Verdana typefaces, has been a mainstay of Boston’s font-foundry scene for decades.

Source: Five things you should know about Matthew Carter – The Boston Globe

The Apple rumor mill is running rampant with the idea that Apple’s new typeface, San Francisco, will begin replacing Helvetica Neue in both…

Source: Helvetica Neue vs. San Francisco: Can You Tell The Difference? ~ Creative Market Blog

NASA’s old school logo helped make science and technology design cool.

Source: Tech’s most famous logo, the NASA worm, gets a second life

We asked some of the biggest names in branding for their take on the Google logo. They love the motion, but some question the word mark.

Source: The Branding Gods (Mostly) Love Google’s New Logo | Co.Design | business + design

A Legendary Redesign of Helvetica, Reborn After 30 Years | WIRED.