Creative Typography

• Subject should be attended on time.
• Products must be delivered to agreed deadlines.
• The subject requires the presence of 80%.
• In case of insufficient attendance, the course cannot be completed in the academic year 2023/2024.
• The final grade of the subject (100%) is composed as follows:
  presence 20%, exam questions 10%, products 50%, presentation 20%.

The Seminar takes place on Tuesdays between 4 pm and 8 pm (P-006).

• October 3, 2023: Typography
• October 10, 2023: Calligraphy*
• October 17, 2023: Front and back
• October 24, 2023: Brumen*
• October 24, 2023: Consistency
• October 31, 2023: /
• November 7, 2023: Colour
• November 14, 2023: Details
• November 21, 2023: Layers
• November 28, 2023: Fonts
• December 5, 2023: Rhythm
• December 12, 2023: Rhetoric
• December 19, 2023: Results presentation
• December 26, 2023: /
• January 2, 2024: /

1. Digitization of the signature (until October 17, 2023)
2. Country in nature (until November 14, 2023)
3. Consistent records (until November 7, 2023)
4. Color of the country (until November 21, 2023)
5. Modularity (until November 28, 2023)
6. Country of layers (until December 5, 2023)
7. Purpose of fonts (until December 12, 2023)
8. Counterform (until December 19, 2023)

As part of the semester assignment, plan and design letters needed to print the selected province/territory, country in English. Letters should lean towards accidental/decorative/address letters (letters of special shapes, e.g. hollow, dashed, decorated, shaded, duplicated or multiplied strokes, stencilled…). Research the characteristics that are typical for selected province/territory, country (cultural, industrial, historical, artistic…) and include them in the produced letters. You will use the letters to write the province/territory, country without the borders that define it, on the map. The submission deadline is December 22, 2023.

• 2a: Canada / British Columbia
• 5a: Canada / Newfoundland and Labrador
• 11a: Canada / Northwest Territories
• 7b: State of Connecticut / Connecticut
• 49b: State of West Virginia / West Virginia
• 1c: Anguilla / Anguilla
• 2c: Antigua and Barbuda / Antigua and Barbuda
• 3c: República Argentina / Argentina
• 4c: Land Aruba / Aruba
• 5c: Commonwealth of Bahamas / Bahamas
• 6c: Barbados / Barbados
• 7:c Belize / Belize
• 8c: Bermuda / Bermuda
• 9c: Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia / Bolivia
• 10c: Bonaire / Bonaire
• 11c: República Federativa do Brasil / Brazil
• 12c: Cayman Islands / Cayman Islands
• 13c: República de Cuba / Cuba
• 14c: Country of Curaçao / Curaçao
• 15c: República de Chile / Chile
• 16c: República de Colombia / Colombia
• 17c: República de Costa Rica / Costa Rica
• 18c: Commonwealth of Dominica / Dominica
• 19c: República Dominicana / Dominican Republic
• 20c: República de Ecuador / Ecuador
• 21c: República de El Salvador / El Salvador
• 22c: Falkland Islands / Falkland Islands
• 23c: Grenada / Grenada
• 24c: Gwadloup / Guadeloupe
• 25c: República de Guatemala / Guatemala
• 26c: Guyane / French Guyane
• 27c: Co-operative Republic of Guayana / Guayane
• 28c: République d’Haïti / Haiti
• 29c: République de Honduras / Honduras

The final assignment consists of a diary, a presentation and an oral defense.

• The diary and the presentation should have a uniform graphic image.
• The diary should be in the form of an e-book (pdf) and contain up to 20 pages.
• It presents an overview of the work on the subject.
• At your own discretion and selection, display important and interesting stages of design in the diary.
• Give short comments next to the products.
• The recommended journal format is A5.

The diary and presentation must be uploaded to OneDrive in pdf format by January 23, 2024 (Izpit_UT_23_24). Files uploaded to OneDrive should NOT contain printing marks (crop marks, bleed marks, registration marks, color bars, page information).

The diary and presentation should contain the colophon: Name and surname | University of Ljubljana | Faculty of Natural Scienceces and Engineering | Department of Textiles, Graphic Arts and Design | Department of Information and Graphic Arts Technology | Creative Typography, 2023/2024 | Mentor: Nace Pušnik

• January 24, 2024 | 10 am
• June 7, 2024 | 9 am
•  August 23, 2024 | 9 am