**Typography 2 with Sem 4 CD Students, NID-A**

Hello!

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Exercise 1: Cards Against Gravity

Use the information you gathered for the bird-representation exercise from symbol design to make an A4 sized card. The card will detail the common name, scientific name, name in Indian language (if available), its habitat, nesting habits, migratory patterns (if any), food and feeding habits, physical features and folk- or other stories associated with the bird.

- Use the bird drawing/drawings from symbol design to illustrate the page. YOU CAN ALSO MAKE ALL OF THIS UP.

- Start with organising the information you have. See if there is a structure that you need to use to make it easy to understand this information. (That is when we talk about grids.)
- While choosing a typeface, try and stick to one typeface and as many styles and weights as you need.
- While using illustrations, use as many or as few as you need to make the composition communicate how your bird works.
- Deadline: You have till Wednesday to finish this. We will figure out many grids/organisation, typefaces and choose a type size/leading combination today.

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Exercise with patterns, grey values and shapes.

Use the patterns from here: http://keyaar.in/files/layoutdesign/KR-20200116-WSAD-LayoutDesign-Textures.pdf to set them in a specific order (define hierarchy and flow). As a further revision to this exercise, try breaking obvious flows to add layers.

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Exercise 2: TYPESET THIS:

http://keyaar.in/files/typography2/HowToWearAnIndianVillage.rtf

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Update 1 / 20 March 2020


Hello everyone! Hope you are all home safe and following best practices w.r.t COVID-19. I’ve reached home in Kozhikode and all of us here are staying home for the next two weeks.

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To put you at ease (academics-wise), the decision (so far) is to continue courses after reopening the institute (whenever that happens; let us hope for a speedy recovery from all this). I will share the commented weekly note this week, along with some links for you to see and read. These are strictly optional; it will be nicer if you spend quality time with family and try and limit travel as much as you can (stay home if possible). Most of you have travelled across state borders; self quarantine at home is mandated in most cases.

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If you have basic drawing stationery with you, work on your skills. Help cook simple meals (maybe later), etc. If the community requires clear instructions or information, spend some time making communication material (in local languages, in particular) that helps the efforts of doctors and the state to contain the disease. (Research well.)

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Most importantly, stay calm, wash hands often and remember that getting over such a pandemic relies on an appropriate sense of social-responsibility as well.

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Looking forward to seeing you all in Typography 2 again! Here is a photo of my cat, Kalyani, to cheer you up.


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Update 2 / 26 March 2020

Helloids! Guessing you all are getting used to staying home and that your families are safe too.

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Have a look at how this monospaced type specimen explains some of the context-specific features: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/#intro

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For the people who enjoy the behind-the-scenes as much as the scenes, here is https://usesthis.com/ It has people discussing their hardware and software choices. Good place to see new ways to work-slash-relax.

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If you (of course you do) enjoy photography and -ic narratives, here is https://maptia.com/ Have a look at the people and places pages for two ways of looking at the stories.

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Here is a Ken Liu story (The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species) http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-bookmaking-habits-of-select-species/ Ken Liu wrote the story that was made into Good Hunting for the Netflix series Love, Death and Robots. Just read it. Good story.