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PoP, the font in … The Faculty Biennial

Last year I created Pop. A font that explores high-contrast strokes, bold colors, and basic shapes. Its creation coincided with my assignment to teach typography in Spring 2022 at Illinois State University. So I started to think of new assignments I could apply to my students. I arrived at extracting shapes from Pop in 2×2Continue reading “PoP, the font in … The Faculty Biennial”

CASLON: a new ligature

I present to the world a new ligature to the Caslon family. One of my favorite typefaces now feels complete with my own collaboration. (Project created for ArtGr 512 – Audience Perception with Paula Curran as instructor)

Technology & Letterpress

Very often, I feel like I am extremely old even though I’m not. This week this happened again. I am what some would call technology-skeptic. I like to wait for new forms of technology to develop before I dip my toes in it because I have a hard time buying into the whole idea rightContinue reading “Technology & Letterpress”

Different Perspectives and Street Photography

How to Have Great Ideas – Take Notice Today, in Graphic Design Theory, we experimented with some different creative methods to expand our creative minds. We followed some prompts from the book How to Have Great Ideas and went out and about Downtown Ames to take pictures and find objects that could have different meanings orContinue reading “Different Perspectives and Street Photography”

What are you resisting? (ArtGr 511)

CONSUMERIST | RESIST v.2 from Vitória Folletto Faccin on Vimeo. For this project, we followed the AIGA Iowa – ALLCAPS Call For Submission as our prompt. Therefore, we needed to create something (it’s always a non-specific something) with type exemplifying what we resist on a daily basis. I had a hard time thinking about a specificContinue reading “What are you resisting? (ArtGr 511)”