Entries tagged with graphic design

Getting into the swing of college. Typography homework is on ancient languages and early phonographs: I'm also doing some work on the final Quark project, a newsletter.

I really do like typography homework - I'm geeky enough to look at the Courier of the text I'm typing right now and mentally go "Square-serif, light, medium x-height ratio, medium m-length, kerning such that the characters are equidistant and it doesn't look off."

Also, I seem to have an irrational love of geometric sans-serif typefaces, like Bauhaus and the Myriad family. Maybe it's because I watch / read / game sci-fi so often.

I could post a Why I Play Bliss Stage entry, easily, but, well - every single interlude resulting from this week's game counts.

( Why I Play Bliss Stage, In Conclusion. )

No other game I've played has ever consistently moved me to tears. It is a game designed to inspire roleplay of terrible and beautiful poetry.

And, Ben, please feel free to put that on the back cover of Ascent Stage, and attribute it to Elliott Belser.

Started taking college classes in Graphic Design - probably going to take Garde Manger classes to fill the 2 credit gap I have now that Comparative Religion is borked (aww!), but if anyone who's been to Laney has some suggestions for Fun Elective I'm all ears (Note that classes in Formal Logic are full beyond capacity: that would have been my first choice).

Monday morning at 10:00-12:00 is a computer lab for Typography exercises.

Tuesday morning 9:00-10:50, class in Quark Express 7, a very intuitive and powerful page layout program. This thing is, as they say, the shiznit. I was noodling around and discovered things I didn't know you COULD do with print (wait a second, it looks much better if I space the paragraphs closer) - thanks for lowering my expectations, Microsoft Word...

Tuesday afternoon 1:00-2:30 (then lab from 3:00-5:00), I have Flash CS3 class. This ought to be FUN - one of the things we saw in that class was a political tract in the form of a relationship map of the CEO's of the world and their companies (Al Gore worked at Apple? Huh.) - for those people who know how little I can shut up about Dat Game About Love Threatened By War, Mecha Style, you can well imagine how much I perked up at that. Sadly, programming is not covered... But I know some Python, so... (hee hee)!

Wednesday morning from 8:00-10:00 (I can no has hawt brkfst, sigh) I have classes in Typography, the ancient art and subtle science of making printed words look REALLY good, and classifying their varieties and uses.

Thursday, lab in the morning and Graphic Design Principles in the afternoon and evening.

No class on Friday or weekends.

In related news, I've started a comm for a Bay Area Roleplaying Society - an organization with one member at the moment, me, on my admin LiveJournal ID http://blissauthority.livejournal.com - and am looking for members that hang out and about Laney (or at least can get to Laney / Endgame near 12th Street Bart easy enough).

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And now, your weekly Why I Play Bliss Stage:

"You can use me as a weapon if you need to, Jess. I love you. I want you to be OK. And I don't particularly mind if the aliens aren't."
-- Tarragon Farah, they boyfriend of Innocent Sweetheart pilot Jessica, who up to this point had been a pacifist.

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