Hey guys,

These are the notes that I took in class the other day. For those of you who weren't there, we talked through a few ideas and finally concluded with a fairly well-defined topic. This is kind of the whole process of our thoughts so it might be a bit confusing, but by the end it should be pretty clear. I hope this helps!

My best attempts at putting the topic in a sentence:
-The change or progression of typography/handwriting of and relating to technological advances
-How technological advances have changed the act as well as the image of handwriting and how we communicate

Process:
-technology changing typography/grids
-generational differences
-each person will get a different time period and talk about the history of typography/design
-went from ink/calligraphy to pencils to pens to mechanical pencils to keyboards to ipads, etc.
-how things change in typography--handwriting, grid structure
-how grid system influences handwriting
-appreciation of handwriting
-we can pose questions such as "why did people dump handwriting altogether and just resort to only computerized fonts?"---investigation, spark thought and ask questions about why handwriting is no longer written
-3 parts to our site---history-->questions, why?-->looking to the future
-investigating grid systems as well
-what is the relationship between communication and typography?
-the manner in which we read today is different than how we would have read a long time ago--online/lots of buttons and clicking as opposed to flipping a page in a book
-how hands used to do things in a certain way (handwriting) and now they just stay basically in one spot and type/scroll--went from moving hands all around to write and draw to typing and scrolling with both hands to just using one hands with iphones and ipads
-the rate of communication has changed along with technological advances--everything is fast now
-is there a nostalgia for handwriting?
-more interesting if we provide questions instead of answers
-technology influencing typography

I know this is a bit confusing because i was writing so rapidly but hopefully if you were in class on Monday you will understand it and if you weren't in class then I hope this can help you at least get familiarized with the idea.

Now what we need to work on is thinking about our content and our grid structure.
Please please PLEASE post on the blog a few ideas throughout the week about some content and grid structures so that we can come in Monday with a good idea of what we want to do.
DO NOT WAIT UNTIL MONDAY MORNING TO DO THIS! We all need to do some research even though we have our assigned positions, which by the way are:

Management: me
Style guide: Lauren, Sachiko, Herman
Graphic design: Alanna, Herman, Cam
Editors: Sachiko
Web: Amelia

For those of you who were not here: please post on the blog what position you would like to do. We definitely need some more editors and hopefully someone else knows a bit about web, although Alanna and I can help with that also. You can have more than one position as Herman does, and that would actually probably be beneficial since there are so few of us.

Also, I know this is a little early to say this, but just so I don't forget...Wing mentioned that we should save duplicate files as we change our ideas, just so that we have every version that we work on to go back and reference.

Ok I know this is a lot but once again, PLEASE post some ideas, references, research, grids, ANYTHING before Monday's class so that we can get ahead, and also come prepared to Monday's class with some images of what our spread might look like.

Thank you guys and I hope this helps!