This course concentrates on design principles relating specifically to typography. Project based topics include: letterform constructions, the visual enhancement of language and message, and typographic methods/terminology of both traditional and digital processes.
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Letter Splice
In this project, students explored the modularity of letters by slicing classic typefaces and creating their own new forms. I asked students to dissect a typeface into parts and then repurpose them as modular units for building a family of 3 icons. The website typeisart.com was a starting point for student explorations.

Gebhardt: Letter Splice Icons
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Pawar: Letter Splice Icons
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Brennan: Letter Splice Icons
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Manchester: Letter Splice Icons
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Stewart: Letter Splice Icons
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Hake: Letter Splice Icons
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Stechschulte: Letter Splice Icons
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Schwegman: Letter Splice Icons
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Villarreal: Letter Splice Icons
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Hustedt: Letter Splice Icons
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Smetana: Letter Splice Icons
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Scott: Letter Splice Icons
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TypeBits: A Modular Typeface
In this project, I asked students to make modular typefaces. First students picked random text messages from their cell phones. Then, they used the content of the text message to inspire modular letterforms. These initial forms were physically built using office supply labels.  Then the students developed their initial letterforms into typefaces using fontstruct.com.
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Bordoshuk : Download font from Fontstruct.com
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Grace by Hall: modular typeface
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CEG by Griffiths: Download from Fontstruct.com
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Azion by Brennan
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Manchester: modular typeface
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Gebhardt: modular typeface
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Zilis: modular typeface
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Nick Peltz: modular typeface
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Crowdspeak: A co-created student project/exhibition
developed by Helen Armstrong, Miami University, and Zvezdana Stojmirovic, The Maryland Institute College of Art
“Workflow—the order of tasks in the realization of a project—is as important as outcome. This experiment explores how different workflows affect authorship and help build community. In this cross-institutional assignment, sophomores at MICA and Miami University pushed the boundaries of authorship. Working with the word POST, they co-created letterforms by receiving, altering and passing on files in a digital assembly line. This workflow dislocated authorship from the individual and placed it within the collective, as resultant letterforms aggregated into a final, animated sequence.” —ZvezdanaStojmirovic
Phase One
Crowdspeak: POST phase 1 from Miami MICA on Vimeo.
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Phase Two
CROWDSPEAK Phase 2 Final_WO from Miami MICA on Vimeo.
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In fall 2010, Crowdspeak was exhibited first at the Miami University, Hiestand Gallery, and then traveled to the MICA Brown Center in Baltimore.

F-03-11 Class in Heistand Gallery

F-03-11 Class in Heistand Gallery

F-03-11 Class in Heistand Gallery

This course concentrates on design principles relating specifically to typography. Project based topics include: letterform constructions, the visual enhancement of language and message, and typographic methods/terminology of both traditional and digital processes.
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Letter Splice
In this project, students explored the modularity of letters by slicing classic typefaces and creating their own new forms. I asked students to dissect a typeface into parts and then repurpose them as modular units for building a family of 3 icons. The website typeisart.com was a starting point for student explorations.

Gebhardt: Letter Splice Icons

Pawar: Letter Splice Icons

Brennan: Letter Splice Icons

Manchester: Letter Splice Icons

Stewart: Letter Splice Icons

Crowdspeak: A co-created student project/exhibition
developed by Helen Armstrong, Miami University, and Zvezdana Stojmirovic, The Maryland Institute College of Art
“Workflow—the order of tasks in the realization of a project—is as important as outcome. This experiment explores how different workflows affect authorship and help build community. In this cross-institutional assignment, sophomores at MICA and Miami University pushed the boundaries of authorship. Working with the word POST, they co-created letterforms by receiving, altering and passing on files in a digital assembly line. This workflow dislocated authorship from the individual and placed it within the collective, as resultant letterforms aggregated into a final, animated sequence.” —ZvezdanaStojmirovic
Phase One
Crowdspeak: POST phase 1 from Miami MICA on Vimeo.
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Phase Two
CROWDSPEAK Phase 2 Final_WO from Miami MICA on Vimeo.
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In fall 2010, Crowdspeak was exhibited first at the Miami University, Hiestand Gallery, and then traveled to the MICA Brown Center in Baltimore.