Typography 1

Themes covered by the course is:

• Design for reading.
• The four dimensions of typography (ergonomic, semantic, aesthetic, craft).
• Cohesion and articulation.
• Access structure and navigation.
• Topic structure and artifact structure.
• Copy-editing and punctuation.
• Hyphenation and justification.
• Micro-typographic spacing.
• Type and font basics.
• Principles of graphic form, composition and spatial layout.
• The elements, page layout and page makeup of the codex book.

• After completion of the course, the student will be in command of standard typographic terminology (Norwegian and English).
• The student will also hold a basic theoretical and practical knowledge of punctuation, hyphenation & justification, micro-typographic spacing, type and fonts, as well as basic principles of typographic design, page layout and page makeup -- while being able to take into consideration both ergonomic, semantic, aesthetic and craft based aspects of typographic design.
• The student can also create styles and global formats and paginate a document in the page makeup programme InDesign.

• Lectures.
• Tool training course: An introduction to InDesign.
• Required coursework: A practical design project organised as a group assignment, supervised on a weekly basis (formative-iterative evaluation).