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Letterhead and Business Cards Project

Question:

How do you want others to see you?
Just as with human beings, the personality of a typeface will come though. It is therefore important for the designer to be able to take advantage of the message that a typeface personality offers regarding the communication of the message.

Objective

Student will use incorporate the elements of design and well as design movements as insperation to create letterhead and business cards

Project

Design a letterhead and business card which expresses your personality using only type, lines and shapes.
Client: yourself

Production:

Black and white
letterhead (8.5 x 11), business card (3 x 2.5)

Exercise: make one busness cards and letterhead that look that the following model

Writing:

Handouts:

Graphic Design Reading

More Design Vocabulary

Elements of Design
Alignment | Repetition | Proximity | Contrast

Design Movements
Modern Style | Constructivism | Bauhaus | Digital