Course Review: Introduction to Typography Course Assignments

Good course, it teaches you the basics of typography. Course Assignments for  Introduction to Typography by Calarts by Anther Kiley on coursera.org 3. 2021.11.05 Week 4 Assignment - create a typographic poster. Gill Sans looks like a classical but modern font. It looks best on an orderly design like the one for the London Underground.  2.   2021.10.26 Week 3 Assignment - format the 2 paragraphs written 1. Week 2 Assignment - research a type  History of the Gill Sans Font HISTORY: The British branch of Monotype in 1928 released Gill Sans fonts designed by Arthur Eric Rowton Gill in Britain Europe. He was an English sculptor, stonecutter, typeface designer, and printmaker at the same time. He wished to design the fonts classical and modern with cleanly outlook. Underground Alphabe by Edward Johnston’s of 1916 was the base font of Gill Sans. Eric Gill perfected the design using his specialty of designing and sculpture. The Gill Sans font was first used in England for ...

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[Course] [Domestika.org] The Art of Sketching: Transform Your Doodles into Art

I am taking the course The Art of Sketching: Transform Your Doodles into Art  by  Mattias Adolfsson, Illustrator, at domestika.org. Here are the drawing assignments I did, I lack drawing skills or exercise so be gentile in criticizing me.  06.01.2021 Introduce yourself and introduce your drawing materials  Hello! My name is Maria and I live in Romania. I use a simple mechanic 0.5 pencil and colored pencils and a sketch book. My sketchbook has thin paper and those are the best tools that I found for it. Hope this course inspires me to draw more. What are your influences? Hi! I grew up watching on TV Japanese anime like Sailor Moon and reading comic books from Disney. I love them still. Now I just make little doodles in my journal, things that happen in my life inspire me to draw. I recently discovered a few artists on Instagram and drawing challenges ("draw this in your style" type) that inspired me to try to draw, but draw using a computer in Corel Draw or Photoshop....

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[Course] [Coursera] Fundamentals of Graphic Design Course Assignments

I started to audit the course   Fundamentals of Graphic Design from Coursera . The course is free to watch& read but in the free version you can't send your assignments. I will do them nevertheless. 2021.07.07 Assignment 4.3  - Music band poster "The Delicious Apples" - album  Have a taste! 2021.07.01 Assignment 4.2 - Double Contrast Triple Contrast 2021.06.25 Assignment 4.1 - Single Contrasts 2021.06.18 Friday Assignment 3.2 - Moroccan pattern 2021.06.17 Thursday Assignment 3.1 -  3 colored complex shapes 2021.06.14 Monday Assignment 2.2 - 3 monograms and 3 business cards 2021.06.09 Thursday  Assignment 2.1 - 4 images. Typeset the name of your object (e.g. "apple") in a typeface that relates to (or represents) each of the 4 adjectives that describe its character or attributes. 2021.06.07 Monday  Assignment 1.2 - 3 Connotative images of an apple  2021.06.05 Saturday  Assignment 1.1 - 10 Denotative images of an ap...

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