October 21: Display faces. Wood type. A new world of publicity Read: Mike Daines, "Pouchée's Lost Alphabets," Eye magazine Vol. 4 No. 15, Winter 1994.. Watch: Typeface, dir. Justine Nagan. Documentary film, 2009 (to be screened in class). * Boston Type Foundry Specimen Book, 1860 - check it out for a full range of 19th-century type styles!! October 28: Midterm test; The Private Press movement Midterm test (20%) - written in the first half of class, lecture to follow Read: Simon Loxley, “An Awful Beauty: the private press movement” in Type: The Secret History of Letters, pp. 79-92 [Course Reserves] November 4: American Type. The search for readability, from newspapers to road signs Simon Loxley, “American spring: creating the modern age” in Type: The Secret History of Letters, pp. 68-78 [Course Reserves]. Alice Savoie, "The women behind Times New Roman: The contribution of type drawing offices to twentieth century type-making." Journal of Design History, Volume 33, Issue 3, September 2020, Pages 209–224 [Course Reserves]. Read: Simon Garfield, “Road Akzidenz” in Just My Type, 143-157 [Course Reserves] November 11: Modernism and the triumph of sans serif Read: Simon Loxley, “Europe after the Rain,” in Type: The Secret History of Letters, pp. 168-74 [Course Reserves]. Read: Simon Garfield, "What is it about the Swiss?" in Just my type, pp. 124 - 138 [Course Reserves]. Watch: Helvetica, dir. Gary Hustwit. Documentary film, 2007 November 18: Pop, Protest, and Phototypography (+ Cyrillic, too) Colette Gaiter, “Strikethrough: Typography Messages of Protest for Civil Rights” (to be screened in class). U&lc (Upper & lower case) magazine, volumes 2-6 (1975-1979) Assignment Types of type - visual essay (30%) Nov 20 30 pts November 25: Postmodernism. Digital type. The return of history. Read: Edward Lebow, “Type: The newest of the old.” American Craft, Vol. 57, Issue. 6 (Dec 1997/Jan 1998): 46-49 [Course Reserves]. Read: Tom Mullaney, "Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts" MIT Technology Review, May 31, 2021 Read: Tobias Frere-Jones, “Experiments in Type Design”(1999), in Steven Heller and Philip B. Meggs, eds. Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography, pp. 228-234 [Course Reserves]. Entire archive of Emigre magazine, now online December 2: Global typeforms and 21st-century type Read: Gerry Leonidas, "Going Global: The Last Decade in Multi-Script Type Design." Typographica.org, Oct. 15, 2013 Read: Eugene Yukechev, "On the ap­pear­an­ce and de­vel­op­ment of Cyril­lic let­ter­forms" Type Journal, 21 September 2020.