Course Information
Type Design I
DSD-3611-C
September 06, 2016–December 13, 2016
Tuesday 03:00PM–05:50PM
209 E 23 St, Room 506
805B 380 Second Avenue

Readings
Week 1 — 9.6.16
WISYWIG by Michael Rock
The Persistence of Posters by Andrew Blauvelt

Week 2 — 9.13.16
The Vignelli Cannon
Regarding the Economy of Typeface by Josef Albers — See also

Week 3 — 9.20.16
Thoughts on Design by Paul Rand
Paul Rand: A Designers Words
Confusion and Chaos by Paul Rand

Week 4 — 9.27.16
Style is not a Four Letter Word by Mr. Keedy
Kalman v. Duffey
The Self-righteous vs the Self-serving by Michael Rock

Week 5 — 10.4.16
Sentences on Conceptual Art by Sol Lewitt
The Matta Clarke Complex by James Goggin

Week 6 — 10.11.16
“Linotype: The Film” Official Trailer
Linotron 505 - 1969
You and the World of Print - 1976
Graphic Communications - We Used to Call It Printing - 1969

Week 7 — 10.18.16
Designing Bon Iver’s 22, a Million: An Interview with Eric Timothy Carlson

Week 8 — 10.25.16
What Design Means for Me by Karel Martens

Week 9 — 11.1.16
New Modernisms: Typography of Utopia Dystopia (Excerpt) by Ben DuVall

Week 10 — 11.8.16
Hover States by Rob Giampietro

Week 11 — 11.15.16
What Screens Want by Frank Chimero
Programming Design Systems by Rune Madsen

Week 12 — 11.22.16
AREA 17 — Design Techniques
Andy Pressman on Friction

Week 13 — 11.29.16
Designing with Unpredictability by Nikhil Mitter
Transitional Interfaces by Pasquale D’Silva

Week 14 — 12.6.16
Exploring Digital Design: Mark Kremers

Week 15 — 12.13.16
Have a good holiday break 🎉

Suggested Books
Typographie: A Manual of Design by Emil Ruder
The New Typography by Jan Tschichold
Grid Systems / Raster Systeme by Josef Müller-Brockmann
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
Detail In Typography by Jost Hochuli
The Typographic Desk Reference By Theo Rosendorf
Designing Type by Karen Cheng
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Robert Irwin
Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes) by Hal Foster
Multiple Signatures by Michael Rock
Design as Art by Bruno Munari

Suggested Websites
Butterick’s Practical Typography
Don’t Fear the Internet: Basic HTML & CSS for Non-Web Designers by Jessica Hische & Russ Maschmeyer
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
Programming Design Systems

Typography References
Classics
ITC
Monotype
Font Shop
Linotype
URW++

Newer Foundries & Independent Type Designers
Commercial Type
Klim Type Foundry (Kris Sowersby)
Optimo
Lineto
Our Type
Tobias Frere-Jones
Hoefler & Co.
Production Type
Letters From Sweden
Playtype
Bold Monday
A2 Type
Open Foundry (decent, free fonts)

NKOTB
Grilli Type
Swiss Typefaces
Colophon Foundry
Radim Pesko
Milieu Grotesque
Schick Toikka
Camelot Typefaces
Medium Extra Bold
Or Type