INSPIRATION

...for tonight's festivities at the every wonderful -shutz

also.

THE ART OF PROCRASTINATION
is...

Always easy to put things off until tomorrow
Making a cup of tea
Scanning your sketches.. even though your not done with your sketches
Blogging, when I don't particularly like blogging
Researching procrastination

Type. i compiti due.

weight. How think or thin characters outlines are displayed in text. Typefaces may come in fonts of many weight.
width. Varying of the width of the characters. Narrower fonts are usually labeled compressed, condensed or narrow. Wide fonts may be called wide, extended or expanded.
Style. Variations in the thickness and stroke, such as light, bold, italic, that lend flexibility and emphasis in the appearance of characters constituting a typeface.

Type is measured in picas

Point. a unit of measurement that is the standard for measuring type and is used for measuring depth of printing. One point is equal to .013836 of an inch and 72 points are approximately 1 inch.
Pica. the depth of this type size as a unit of linear measurement for type, pages containing type, etc.; one sixth of an inch.

72 points in an inch
6 picas in a inch
12 points in a pica
If a letter set is 36 pts. it is 1/2 inches tall

x-height. The x-height is the height of the main body of the lowercase letter (or the height of a lowercase x ), excluding its ascenders and descenders. The bigger the x-height is in relation to the cap height, the bigger the letters will look.
cap height. The cap height is the distance from the top of the capital letter to its bottom. Some vertical elements (ascenders) may extend slightly above the cap height.
leading

VISC202

Grid: a way to communicate a coherent message using pictures, fields of text, headlines, and or tabular data. They can be rigorous and mechanical, or organic and loose. A grid consists of a distinct set of alignment-bases relationships that serves as a guide for distributing elements across a format. 

Benefits and uses of the grid: Clarity, Efficiency, Economy, and Continuity. A grid introduces systematic order to a layout and helps distinguish specific types of information and eases a user's navigation through them.

Modular Grid: A grid system using columns and rows.

Margins: the negative spaces between the format edge and the content, which surround and define the life area where type and images will be arranged. 

Columns: vertical alignments of type that create horizontal divisions between the margins. There can be all numbers and sizes.

Grid Modules: individual units of space separates by regular intervals that, when repeated across the page format, create columns and rows.

Flowlines: alignments that break the space into horizontal bands. Flowlines help guide the eye across the format and can be used to impose additional stopping and starting points for text or images.

Gutter: the middle of two pages.

Hierarchy: based on the importance the designer assigns to each part of the text, allows the viewer to enter the typographic space and navigate it.

Typographic Color: changes in weight, texture or value, and rhythm.

Ways to achieve a clear hierarchy: manipulating the spaces around and between test, treating contrast carefully, and changing the typographic color of the element.

Hey world. Welcome to my blog. This will mark my first ever blogging experience, so bear with me. 

Our first assignment for VISC204 involved the selection of an animal. Being the tallest, and one of the largest animals currently walking the earth, giraffes were my immediate selection (closely followed by penguins and hippos). Our project is in the beginning stages so here are a few pictures I found from my research that began to inspire me.

some food for though: Giraffes only sleep about 30 min every 24 hours and only need to drink about once every one month. How would you feel if you had to bend down 18 feet to the nearest water source?