m05:TypeFace
Applying Gestalt Principles students will create a self portrait while focusing on abstracting the placement of type in a single layout to create their image. Pay close attention to postive space (letterform) and the negative space (counter space) and how you utilize its existing shapes to help illustrate your portrait. Students are limited to a single typeface and the letters of their own name.
Assignment &
Evaluation Sheet
Student Gallery
Assignment Resource Links
External Resource Links
- Bembo's Zoo
- Paula Scher :
Pentagram,
AIGA Biography,
AIGA: Artist Series Video,
Ted Talks
File Naming Convention
.PNG or .TIF files accepted unless otherwise noted/requested, per individual assignments.
Thank you.
Proper file names must be as follows:
(assignment id) underscore (term+year) underscore (Last name+First initial)
- Example: c04_SP15_OverstreetD
FA = Fall
JA = January
SP = Spring
SU = Summer
Gestalt Principles
The parts of the visual image may be considered, analyzed and evaluated as distinct components…
HOWEVER
The whole of the visual image is different from and greater than the sum of its parts.
- Closure
- Continuation
- Figure/Ground
- Proximity
- Similarity