Summer Classes
Yaaay.
Actually so far it’s not bad. A lot of work, but it’s in a subject I actually care about- typography!
It sounds like learning the history, uses and structure of type and letterforms would be really frakkin’ boring, but I actually think it’s useful and VERY relevant to my line of work (how many times have you seen a small company with a logo or ad that just really disgusts you because the text is so inappropriate to what they’re trying to sell? Maybe that’s just me…) and the professor loves what she’s teaching. Yesterday we saw some photos of hers from Paris. One was of Cezanne’s studio, which was amazing and gorgeous and looked exactly like one of his paintings, and the rest were of Parisian type! They had a really nice art-nouveau-style metro entrance, and of course the elegant scripty cafe signs that you’d normally find with nearly anything French in America (one was a McCafe… which is apparently a cafe-style settee in a French McDonalds o_O weird). Makes me want to go to France, badly. Too bad I’m taking Spanish this upcoming fall instead… I guess there’s always time for French, too!
What’s most challenging about the class at this point is doing type by hand, something that’s practically obsolete now thanks to the computer, but it’s important anyway for learning basic principles.
Anyway, that’s about it for now. Typography’s interesting. Gotta go finish up some homework. Bye-bye!
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