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Day 14 - July 20th
Friday again, and our final day of process on the grid/typographical hierarchy project for Stacy. Kyle and I brought in 50% scale versions of our posters, and other folk brought in digital and print copies of their own projects. Obviously, another critique ensued. Everyone’s work is looking very good, many of us are moving straight into the refinement stage of our designs. I picked up lots of tips from my classmates and Stacy on how to improve things, but most were so specific as to be uninteresting without a copy of the design to look at.
One interesting thing, was that I learned about proper line tracking and rags, and how to get them right. Stacy looked over my poster, and told me that I would need to do some work to get everything tracked nicely. I had assumed that good tracking meant making everything look more or less justified, but this was not the case. Good tracking on rag-right text is when there is a relatively consistent in-and-out rag (i.e., alternating line lengths in pairs). Tracking in this manner ensures that shapes or smooth curves do not appear at the edges of paragraphs, which is distracting to the reader otherwise. So, I spent more than three hours this afternoon tracking out every line in my poster. Not nearly as tedious as I would have imagined, really.
Now to just get things perfect on Sunday! I have a friend visiting this weekend, so I won’t be able to work until then, but I expect Sunday will be a long day.
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July 28th, 2007
Posted by Paul in CMU, Design Fundamentals, Typography |