Notes & Assignments 2/12/09

this thursday you have the following assignment due:

choose 5 dates that have emotional significance for you. choose among birthdays, deaths, first kisses, family events, achievements, disappointments, etc., or dates that are important to you and many others (such as inaugurations).

create one 10" x 16" black & white typographic composition poster for each date- i.e. a total of five posters. each poster should have only one piece of information on it: the date itself. you can express the date however you like, using any combination of words and numbers*, but the letters and numbers of the date must be the only visual elements on the poster. no images.

keep in mind two goals:
content- express the emotional significance of this date using the elements of typography (letterform, typeface, space, composition, etc.)
form- make a beautiful piece of typography

(* e.g. the date "january 21, 1978" could be expressed as:
1/21/78
1.21.78
one 21 nineteen seventy-eight
january twenty-first nineteen seventy-eight
etc.)