Sketchbook Alphabet

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Alphabet Book Pages Proof

Harry Potter Alphabet

Alohomora	Door-unlocking spell.
Butterbeer	Frothy, buttery drink served in Hogsmeade.
Cruciatus Curse	Inflicts torture with the command Crucio. One of the three Unforgivable Curses.
Death Eaters	Followers of Voldemort. They are summoned by the Dark Mark.
Dark Mark, the	Sign of the Death Eaters: a skull with a serpent in its mouth.
Extendable Ears	Long flesh-colored strings that allow the user to eavesdrop on conversations from a distance. Invented by Fred and George.
Felix Felicis	A potion that provides its drinker with liquid luck.
Granger, Hermione	Smart know-it-all at Hogwarts in Gryffindor house. She has bushy, brown hair, large front teeth and a loud, rather bossy voice. Hermione works very hard and always gets the best marks in her exams. Harry's next best friend after Ron Weasley. Her parents are Muggle dentists.
Golden Snitch	Small, golden ball with silver wings used in Quidditch. Must be caught by a Seeker to end the match.
Horcrux	An Object in which a person has concealed part of their soul.
Imperius Curse	Spell to control another person completely, using the incantation “Imperio”. One of the three Unforgivable Curses. It can be resisted only with great mental effort.
Jelly-Legs Jinx	Makes your adversary's legs wobbly.
Knight Bus, the	Emergency bus that transports witches and wizards to any destination.
Lumos	Spell to light your wand.
Marauder's Map	A map that shows all the secret passageways and the whereabouts of everyone in Hogwarts. Harry and Ron use it to get to Hogsmeade.
Nimbus 2000	Type of broomstick. Harry's first broomstick.
Omnioculars	Binoculars with slow-motion and replay settings.
Patronus	Positive force which acts as protection from a Dementor. It is conjured up by the incantation “Expecto patronum”.
Quick-Quotes Quill	Pen that writes tabloid journalism by itself.
Room of Requirement	A room that a person can only enter when he or she has real need of it. When it appears it is always equipped for the seeker’s needs. Also known to the house-elves as the Come and Go Room.
Skele-Gro	Potion used to re-grow bones after they have been removed.
Sorting Hat	The hat that decides which House students shall be in while at Hogwarts.
Time-Turner	Hourglass that allows the wearer to travel back in time.
Unbreakable Vow Veritaserum	A magical vow that requires the person who takes it to complete the avowed mission or die. Powerful Truth Potion.
Wingardium Leviosa	Spell to make things fly.

Xenophilius "Xeno" Lovegood                   was the editor of The Quibblermagazine, the husband of Mrs. Lovegood, and the father of Luna Lovegood. He believed in the existence of the Deathly Hallows and supported Harry in The Quibbler when few others would.

You-Know-Who	The evil Lord Voldemort, a Dark wizard who killed Harry's parents. Also referred to as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Zonko's	Wizard joke shop in Hogsmeade.

Found Alphabet

Igne Druckrey Documentary Review

Inge Druckrey Documentary Review

The documentary on Inge Druckrey talked about the impact she made as a teacher and her way of looking at creating typography.  As a teacher, Inge wanted to teach her students to not see things for what they were but for what they were doing.  She emphasized the idea of abstraction to get her students to understand this.  This is very similar to the teachings of the design fundamentals class that I have taken.  She says that once you see things in a certain way you never stop noticing them.  “Training the eye is very important” I agree with this statement because as an art student I have been taught and trained to see things in a new light then I have been used to.  Once this new way of seeing is established it is almost impossible to stop seeing or looking in the new way.  Inge makes many observations about type and how letters relate to each other in a design sense.  This is very important information when designing because the relationship between all of the type elements needs to be cohesive.   The part with Steve Jobs speech is very motivating and inspiring as a design student.  Seeing and hearing someone so famous and especially in the mac/apple industry talking about his experience makes me want to learn what he has learned.  Watching Inge creating letterforms with the brush is fascinating.  As a graphic designer I am used to just seeing the finished typeface on the computer already so seeing the process of creating the letterforms is intriguing.  The amount of skill that it would take to create such perfect lines and curves is incomprehensible.  It makes me want to experiment with a brush to see what kinds of marks it will make and play with the changed in thin to thick strokes.  When creating the letterforms with the brush Igne talks about the optical middle verses the actual middle.  This is important because the geometric middle of the letterform is altered visually when the other elements are added.  This must be taken into consideration because the letterforms need to look and feel balanced.

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Characteristics they Share:

• High legibility
• Structured
• Symmetrical
• Unified design
• Simplistic

Steps to Follow:

• Cohesive color palette
• Abstract images
• Symmetry
• Simplicity
• Legibility
• Images cohesive with topic

High Society 2

Legibility

Expressive words

Type Spec Book

Letterforms

Anatomy of Type

Studying the history of the written language

Studying the Written Language

            The history of the written language is an important part of our past that can be beneficial to a designer.  Similar to learning the history of our country, learning about the past helps to prevent us from making the same mistakes.  Many early languages are not spoken or written anymore; they are just studied.  We can learn from this in two ways.  One way is to figure out why these languages are obsolete, and the other, is to create connections between the old and the modern languages.  Latin, for example, is a language that many other languages are based off of, one of which is English.  Learning about this helps to improve our understanding of our own words and also the other languages based off of Latin.  Written language has a lot of information to offer from a design prospective because it is the prime example of visual art.  Any mark made, whether it is on wood, on parchment or on stone is a visual element. 

            Written language, when translated, often times lose its true meaning.  Knowing this can happens, makes the visual part of designing that much more important to communicating an idea.  Many languages began as simple drawings of the things they were representing.  Images from ancient times can be more easily understood than the letterforms.  This is because people in different cultures have the same needs and similar wants.  Water, people, and most animals will translate the same between different cultures because we share these elements. 

Learning about these, connects our past markings with our modern ones.  We can understand the evolution of our own alphabet, and even our numeric system.  The Phoenicians created the first phonetic alphabet; this development made writing styles easier to learn and understand.  It condensed the large picture alphabets into 22 sounds with symbols to match.  The Greeks borrowed this system and added vowels to make certain sounds they required.  This is the process that created our modern day alphabet.

            Not only does this help with our communication of language, it also helps with our communication through the visual elements.  Images and even typefaces can evoke a certain era or manner in the way it is displayed.  If we know what past languages or markings looked like we can use them to our advantage to portray this feeling of prehistoric time, or a prehistoric place.  Also, knowing where these markings came from give us the benefit of using them to illustrate a culture or region of the world.  The wedges added to the strokes define the Sumerian writing style.  Therefore, a mark similar to this creates an ancient feel or look to the design.  Languages are from all over the world, and so studying or just being familiar with them benefits our universal perspective.  Some images might be translated differently depending on where they are being seen, and so having prior knowledge of that country or culture’s language could potentially help make the message clearer.  A more complicated concept could be mistranslated when being seen in different cultures.  A bigger issue of this could be cultures religious views or even their morals.  In other countries such as Australia, some designs would seem extremely inappropriate if brought to the United States. 

            The purpose of design is to communicate through visual elements and therefore studying the history of writing systems is very beneficial when the message needs to be clear.  

Picture Story

Square chinese writing

Banner Proofs

2 proofs of banners from aztec and sumerian writing.

first history post

History test

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My name is Betsy Stipa and this is my blog for typography.