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by Hugh D’andrade, Nigel French
The Type Project Book: Typographic projects to sharpen your creative skills & diversify your portfolio
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
What’s Inside this Book
Our intended audience
Some technical notes
1. Pastiche
Victorian: Embrace decorative excess
Choose the type
Create the frame
Decoration
Adding catchwords
Exploring stylistic alternates
Texture
Art Nouveau: Tangled up in vines
Setting the type
Adding multiple strokes to the type
Add the frame
Add the vines
Dada: In favor of irrationality
Type choices
Create an overprint effect
Adding the texture
Constructivist: Reds, blacks, and bold diagonals
Type choice and treatment
Color
Rotating the type
Finishing touches
Bauhaus: Simple shapes and primary colors
Creating the letters
Create the cover
Art Deco: Elegant geometry
Create the frame
Add the type
Add the inner frame
Add layer styles
Wartime Poster: Dig deep for victory
Choose colors
Choose the type
Prepare the image
Add the texture
Pulp: Saucy and sensationalist
Document setup
Choose the type
Prepare the figure
Add the texture
Swiss: Functional, neutral, and asymmetric
Adding the type
Country Music Poster: Create a Hatch Show Print–inspired poster
Choosing the type
Psychedelia: Get groovy with a ’60s rock poster
Color palette
Choose the type
Imagery
Warp the type
Punk: There is no future in England’s dreaming
Prepare the image
Add the type
Grunge: Here we are now, entertain us
Choose the type
Choose your weapon
Create the background
Add texture with a custom brush
Add the type
2. Short Text
Magazine Cover: Where flyaway hair and masthead meet
Create the masthead/nameplate
Prepare the image
Add the type
Choose colors
Classic Fiction: Type that’s in your face
Choose the type
Create a rich black
Add a twist
Prepare the spine and back cover
Vintage Album Cover: Subdued colors and wandering baselines
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Format the type
Finishing touches
Compact Disc Package: Capture a moment with a “mix tape”
Document setup
Type choice
Photo choice
Inlay card
Printing
Label
Cookbook: Type in a supporting role
Create the image
Choose the type
Format the type
Theater Poster: Working with diagonals
Create the diagonal grid
Add the text
City Poster: Vintage repetition and randomness
Document setup
Create a color palette
Type choice
Travel Guide: Keeping it simple
Color palette
Document setup
Type treatment and font choice
Movie Poster: And the award goes to…
Type choice and treatment
Copy the outlines to Photoshop as a Vector Smart Object
Prepare the image
Add the inner frame
The credit text
Music Festival Poster: Curate your dream lineup
Create a color palette
Create the background
Festival logo
Moving to InDesign for the type
More Classic Fiction: A chat about illustrating a classic
Infographic: Worth a (few) thousand words
Document setup
Letterpress Gig Poster: Grooving with moveable type in the 21st century
Choosing the type
Beer Label: Craft your favorite brew
Create the illustration
Choose the type
Color palette
Wine Label: Design a premium wine label
Choose the type
Add the mask
Format the type
Business Card: Make a good first impression
Minimalist approach
Maximalist approach
Organizing the information
Considerations
Peacock that card
3. Longer Text
Gift or Product Guide: Between structure and chaos
Image treatment
Grid
Balance and image placement
Type choice and treatment
Column rules
Fiction Classic: Wrangle hundreds of pages like a pro
Page and margin size
Clean up the text
Choose the type
Compose the text
Adding page numbers and running heads to the master page
Styling the chapter opening pages
Creating the front matter
Table of contents
Workflow steps
Poetry: Be flexible and sweat the small stuff
Page size and margins
Type choice and formatting
Centering the text on the longest line
Cookbook: Step-by-step recipe instructions
Page size and margins
Choosing type
Format the text
Control the text flow
Structure the page
Magazine Layout: Create a six-page magazine feature article
Choosing and formatting the type
Working with a floating column
Combining text and images
Sidebars and captions
Menu: Design a menu for your favorite restaurant
Type choice and document setup
Text formatting considerations
Spacing and hierarchy
Trifold Brochure: Design a simple brochure
Set up the document
Choose the type
Breaking out of the boxes
Visual TOC: Design a table of contents spread
Choose the type
Set up the table(s) of contents
Form Design: No hanging chads
Format the table
Choose the type
4. Typographic Portraits
Neighborhood Alphabet: We’re going on a type hunt!
Photographing the letters
Back and forth
Beside the Sea: Evoke a place or genre with type
Photographing the type
Creating a grid
Working with compound paths
Environmental Alphabet: Find letters in everything
Building your collection
Create a Publish Service in Lightroom Classic
Making the grid in InDesign
Adding color
Ghost Type: Fading signs from times gone by
Collage: Combine type, texture, and vintage clip art
Combining the type
Distress the text
Adapt the clip art
Add texture
Type Map: Create a map exclusively from type
Preparing the map
Choose the type
Using the Touch Type Tool
Convert to Outlines
Add clipping masks
Celebrity Type Portrait: “Shading” with words
Prepare the image
Prepare the type
Selecting the tonal ranges
Add the background shading
Hand-Lettered Type Portrait: The best of times, and the worst of times
Prepare the image
Add the lettering in Fresco
Finishing off in Illustrator
Tracing the image
Split-Face Type Portrait: Half man–half letters
Clipping the face to the type
ASCII Art: Get cryptic with an Old Master
Puzzle: Create a themed word search
An A–Z Collection: Explore the personality of type
5. Type as Image
Typographical Logo: A new logo for a venerable institution
Illustrate a Lyric with Type: Give a typographic voice to a favorite song lyric or quote
Choose the type
Formatting the text
Choosing colors
Finishing touches
Typeface Design: A chat with the creator of Barlow
Shaped Text: Give visual form to the words
Working with an invisible text wrap
Text on a path
Text inside a shape
Animated Web Banner: Make it move
Building the type in Illustrator
Layer the colorways
Creating the animation
Type Patterns and Transformations: What letters do when they’re off duty
Transform effects
Illustrator patterns
Photoshop patterns
Build a Chiseled Drop Cap: Go large with your initial letter
Draw the shapes
Choose the colors
Add the outline
Create the 3D effect
Add Flourishes to Your Type: Let your letters sprout swirls and spirals
Edit the existing letterforms
Icons: Turn symbols into a working picture font
Creating the font
Hand Lettering: Create a hand-lettered quote
Choosing a type style
Draw the quote
Ink the quote in Procreate
Large Letter Postcard: Bold letters worthy of a great city
Color Fonts: Explore the possibilities of chromatic type
Hoodie: Wearable type
Choose the type
Create the arch
Prepare for silkscreen printing
Interpret a Word or Phrase: Use a twist to enhance the meaning
Choose the type
Combine the shapes
Convert to a Live Paint Group
Silkscreened Gig Poster: Indie rock in limited color
Set the type
Simplify the layers
Check the trap
Interpret a List or Series: Rain later. Good.
Choose the type
Format the text
Index of Typefaces
Index
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