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Inicial Mix from Rosa Fernández

Typography

First of all... a game for all the group:

Alphabets - Typography on PhotoPeach

TYPOGRAPHY is what language looks like. 

It is the art and technics of type design.

Type the sky

Type the sky is an original project by Lisa Rienermann, a student of Duisburg-Essen University. 

Each letter is an empty space in the sky of Barcelona surrounded by buildings. She says: "Todo comenzó por la Q. Estaba en una pequeña calle de Barcelona y al mirar hacia arriba vi las casas, el cielo y las nubes. El área oscurecida por las casas dejaba entrever una forma en el cielo que parecía una Q. Esa fue la idea de la técnica. Pensé que si una Q me había encontrado a mi, no sería difícil que yo encontrara al resto del alfabeto. De modo que pasé semanas mirando al cielo, buscando el resto de las letras entre las casas."

Eatphabet

Eating from A to Z! By Luiza P. (Flicker user). 

She says: “This project was conceived as a way to document my eating habits and routine, through the creation of an alphabet.“

Types
A pop-up book.


Human alphabets
Human Alphabets 3

Human Alphabets 3 from Sotirios Raptis

Human alphabets 2
Human alphabets 1

Have a look to examples from your last course classmates.

Names

This is a task I like doing when we begin a new course. It let me get to know you, learn your names and, by the way, we work with a "popurrí" of items which will be a review of EPVA: elements of art and technical drawing (parallelism, perpendicularity, Thales), image, typography, visual elements (dots, lines, shapes, colours, textures), design process, sketching ...

BE CREATIVE, ORIGINAL AND... ENJOY!

You will see your artworks published in this blog very soon....

Reviewing the elements of Art

The first task: Typography - your names

This is a task I like doing when we begin a new course. It let me get to know you, learn your names and, by the way, we work with a "popurrí" of items which will be a review of EPVA: elements of art and technical drawing (parallelism, perpendicularity, Thales), image, typography, visual elements (dots, lines, shapes, colours, textures), design process, sketching ...

You will see your artworks published in this blog very soon....

Reviewing the elements of Art

Your tasks: Names

Inicial Mix from Rosa Fernández

Your digital typography

Link to the padlet

Digital Typography

First of all... a game for all the group:

Alphabets - Typography on PhotoPeach

And now, some interactive activities:

Activities for the computer room

• Look, you will be able to build your name using letters from Flickr. Look at my name:

 

If you want to build yours, this is the link: http://metaatem.net/words/. You only have to write the name in the white box, click on "spell" and you will get your letters. If you want to change the type, just click on each letter and a new one will apperar.  Click right mouse button on each letter to save it as a jpg image. You can use them in your school homeworks, posters, in headlines, titles, headings... or just to write a letter or a greeting card to a friend. This is more original than using Word or PowerPoint WordArt. Isn´t it?.

• Periodic table writer. Try! 
  
• Try another one. Using the software CoolText, we transform a text into amazing icons. I have used it and this is what I got:

• The following one is in French, but I'm sure you will do with it: Coloriage Prenom.

• Scary fonts to download, for Halloween.

• Graffiti Creator. Create your own graffiti.

• Graffiti.

More:

Letters can be used to create whatever you like. Have a look:

• The Scarecrow

Do you want to try?

• Robotype composer

And more:

• Cool typography and words of wisdom in Pinterest.

Typography

TYPOGRAPHY is what language looks like. 

It is the art and technics of type design.

Type the sky

Type the sky is an original project by Lisa Rienermann, a student of Duisburg-Essen University. Each letter is an empty space in the sky of Barcelona surrounded by buildings. She says: "Todo comenzó por la Q. Estaba en una pequeña calle de Barcelona y al mirar hacia arriba vi las casas, el cielo y las nubes. El área oscurecida por las casas dejaba entrever una forma en el cielo que parecía una Q. Esa fue la idea de la técnica. Pensé que si una Q me había encontrado a mi, no sería difícil que yo encontrara al resto del alfabeto. De modo que pasé semanas mirando al cielo, buscando el resto de las letras entre las casas."

Eatphabet

Eating from A to Z! By Luiza P. (Flicker user). She says: “This project was conceived as a way to document my eating habits and routine, through the creation of an alphabet.“

Types
A pop-up book.


Human alphabets
Human Alphabets 3

Human Alphabets 3 from Sotirios Raptis

Human alphabets 2
Human alphabets 1

More examples:

• Draw me a song: take a look to these wonderful typography examples. Posters.
• Modular typography: Made typography using half moon shape as the negative space between box shapes. Then translated into cardboard sculptures mimicking the same design elements. Sculptures.
• Fillingraphy on typography. Cakes!

Have a look to examples from your last course classmates.

The first task: Typography - your names

This is a task I like doing when we begin a new course. It let me get to know you, learn your names and, by the way, we work with a "popurrí" of items which will be a review of first of ESO: elements of art and technical drawing (parallelism, perpendicularity, Thales), image, typography, visual elements (dots, lines, shapes, colours, textures), design process, sketching ...

You will see your drawings published in this blog very soon....

Digital typographies

First of all... a game for all the group:

Alphabets - Typography on PhotoPeach

And now, some interactive activities:

Activities for the computer room

• Look, you will be able to build your name using letters from Flickr. Look at my name:

 

If you want to build yours, this is the link: http://metaatem.net/words/. You only have to write the name in the white box, click on "spell" and you will get your letters. If you want to change the type, just click on each letter and a new one will apperar.  Click right mouse button on each letter to save it as a jpg image. You can use them in your school homeworks, posters, in headlines, titles, headings... or just to write a letter or a greeting card to a friend. This is more original than using Word or PowerPoint WordArt. Isn´t it?.

• Periodic table writer. Try! 
  
• Try another one. Using the software CoolText, we transform a text into amazing icons. I have used it and this is what I got:

• The following one is in French, but I'm sure you will do with it: Coloriage Prenom.

• Scary fonts to download, for Halloween.

• Graffiti Creator. Create your own graffiti.

• Graffiti.

More:

Letters can be used to create whatever you like. Have a look:

• The Scarecrow

Do you want to try?

• Robotype composer

And more:

• Cool typography and words of wisdom in Pinterest.

Typography

TYPOGRAPHY is what language looks like. 

It is the art and technics of type design.

Type the sky
Type the sky is an original project by Lisa Rienermann, a student of Duisburg-Essen University. Each letter is an empty space in the sky of Barcelona surrounded by buildings. She says: "Todo comenzó por la Q. Estaba en una pequeña calle de Barcelona y al mirar hacia arriba vi las casas, el cielo y las nubes. El área oscurecida por las casas dejaba entrever una forma en el cielo que parecía una Q. Esa fue la idea de la técnica. Pensé que si una Q me había encontrado a mi, no sería difícil que yo encontrara al resto del alfabeto. De modo que pasé semanas mirando al cielo, buscando el resto de las letras entre las casas."

Eatphabet

Eating from A to Z! By Luiza P. (Flicker user). She says: “This project was conceived as a way to document my eating habits and routine, through the creation of an alphabet.“

Types
A pop-up book.


Human alphabets
Human Alphabets 3

Human Alphabets 3 from Sotirios Raptis

Human alphabets 2
Human alphabets 1

More examples:

• Draw me a song: take a look to these wonderful typography examples. Posters.
• Modular typography: Made typography using half moon shape as the negative space between box shapes. Then translated into cardboard sculptures mimicking the same design elements. Sculptures.
• Fillingraphy on typography. Cakes!

Have a look to examples from your last course classmates.

The first task: TYPOGRAPHY

This is a task I like doing when we begin a new course. It let me get to know you, learn your names and, by the way, we work with a "popurrí" of items which we are going to work with along the next nine months.

I realize you don't understand very well what your are doing now. Don't worry, you will. We will hang them in our corks and we will have good references for the different topics we are going to deal with, such as technical drawing (parallelism, perpendicularity, Thales), image, typography, visual elements (dots, lines, colours, textures), design process, sketching ...

You will see your drawings published in this blog very soon....

Your tasks: portraits and selfportraits online

Created with Padlet

Created with Padlet

Created with Padlet

Created with Padlet

Portraits and self-portraits online

• Wordificator. Upload your jpg picture, write words you like and... "wordificate" it! 
  

• Now a challenge. First practice with these tools and then, choose one an create something similar to a face.

1. Typisart.
2. Typedrawing.
3. Robotype.
4. Superveloz.

 

• Obama me. Upload a photo and create a poster only with shapes.
  

• AgingBooth. We will transform into grandmas and grandpas!
• Fatbooth. What would you look like with a "few" extra pounds?
• Surprising. Read.

Self-portraits

A self-portrait is a representation of an artist, drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist.

Self-portraits have been made by artists since the earliest times.

In the later 20th century and more so in the 21st century, new techniques and video are playing a part in furthering self-portraiture (artworks, crafts, videoblogs, digital self-portraits, selfie, etc.).

There are many different ways to make a self-portrait. It has not to be a traditional drawing or painting of your face.

1st ESO C, self-portraits example

"For a university project I was asked to produce 50 different paintings in completely different styles. I thought it would be a challenge to 50 self portraits. I had the whole summer to complete the project, but only left myself a week to do it.

I started off my researching my favourite artists hoping to generate a list of 50 styles. I decided on 25 to begin with and began painting then. I did a painting every 1-2 hours depending on the complexity of the style I was replicating. Styles varied from traditional painters such as Van Gogh, Picasso and Rembrandt to modern artists such as Chuck Close, Jenny Saville and many others. I produced a few cartoon versions of myself such as a Simpsons character, Beano character and in a Manga style."

Kyle Lambert, Visual Artist, Painter and Illustrator

Watch this video self-portrait exibited at Museum of Modern Art in New York City,

EXPLORING YOUR IDENTITY
Making a self-portrait is a great way to express and explore your identity.

1st of ESO: Exploring
The idea is to do the silhouettes of your head and fill in your head with a magazine collage of what is going in your brain, what you prefer, what you are fond of...

Idea from: http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/selfport.htm#Names

Readers Digest

Ideas to get you started: clothes, music, words, sports, food, people you admire, singers, actors...
Trace your head on two white papers (using the window). Then filled in the head shape with magazine images in one of the papers. The second one will be the template of the final frame of your self-portrait, so, you will have to cut out the inside part. Let's do it.

• An example used in a TV advertisment: "Bebamos de la naturaleza".
• Here you will find some examples

3rd of ESO: Exploding

Create a collage illustration using your self-portrait picture (A3).

The folio society. Man 10

Nenad Dodic

 If you are too shy to show your face, you can modify your photo:

Meet Jack, handmade collage by StudioKoten, 2015

Students

More examples.

LANDSCAPE SELF-PORTRAIT

What about creating a self-portrait using your favourite landscape in the background, foreground or both?

Haircut 1, 2012

Haircut 8, 2012

More examples in Enrin Case website.

ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAITS

TYPOGRAPHY SELF-PORTRAIT

Another way of making a portrait is using typography instead of a collage or paint. Take a look at 45 amazing Type Faces- Typographic Portraits. Really amazing! Le's make something similar with your pictures just writing your name (or your sign).

Here you will find some examples.

Bob Dylan, by CaliburlerSoul