July 2019
Beginner
353 pages
13h 12m
English
The Exercises in this chapter will provide technical and aesthetic lessons in the juxtaposition of type and image. In these exercises, you’ll finalize the Un Chien Andalou poster that you started as a collage in Chapter 8, Select, Copy, Paste, Collage. You’ll also place your Adobe Photoshop collage file into Adobe Illustrator to set the type and create a PDF document for viewing or printing.
Contrast and rhythm are essential principles to keep in mind when designing with type. In Gestalten TV’s interview with Erik Spiekermann, the Berlin-based typographer compared type design to musical composition. ...