What assignments do you remember from school? What was the most helpful? What was a waste of time? (I could regret this question, but I do want to know)
I just joined the forum and I graduated in 1998. I never had you Scott as a professor, but here are some notable things that I remember a decade later:
Hand lettering. I don’t know if this is still done, but even if no directly beneficial skills came from the exercise of using tracing paper, fat pencils, paint-on white out and graphic pens, it definitely got me in touch with the essence of typography and the rich heritage and history associated with individual typefaces and typography in general. I remember those assignments more poignantly than any other.
Other notable memories are of the graphics classes trying to use Mac Classics (the all-in-one’s with the 5 inch screens). Designs were saved to 700k floppy discs and when you would try and pan around your design, it could take minutes for the machine to redraw the region you are trying to look at. Near the end of my schooling at Ricks, the lab was upgraded with 200mhz Mac Clones with 17” monitors. We were in design heaven. It was like we traded in our chisels and rock for high grade drawing paper and Kohinoor Rapidograph Pens.
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October 16th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I just joined the forum and I graduated in 1998. I never had you Scott as a professor, but here are some notable things that I remember a decade later:
Hand lettering. I don’t know if this is still done, but even if no directly beneficial skills came from the exercise of using tracing paper, fat pencils, paint-on white out and graphic pens, it definitely got me in touch with the essence of typography and the rich heritage and history associated with individual typefaces and typography in general. I remember those assignments more poignantly than any other.
Other notable memories are of the graphics classes trying to use Mac Classics (the all-in-one’s with the 5 inch screens). Designs were saved to 700k floppy discs and when you would try and pan around your design, it could take minutes for the machine to redraw the region you are trying to look at. Near the end of my schooling at Ricks, the lab was upgraded with 200mhz Mac Clones with 17” monitors. We were in design heaven. It was like we traded in our chisels and rock for high grade drawing paper and Kohinoor Rapidograph Pens.