This course extends on the fundamentals of typography covered in visc 2001, while allowing for expression and experimentation to create dynamic and exciting typographic solutions to given problems. Students learn to analyze, edit, configure and refine varied content and in the process master syntax, structure, legibility, tone, value, texture, contrast, flow of information, and relationships of scale. Typographic assignments involve the representation of texts as visually dynamic, clear, functional communication. Foremost is an appreciation of typography as visual language. 3 credits

Prerequisite: ARTM2115