Monday, 16th of May

Here is the process of our thinking from Monday’s class. Once again, it's a bit brief and random because I was just trying to capture the ideas that everyone was blurting out, but if you were in class it should make sense and just be a refresher. We ended with a narrowed down idea of what we want our content to be. We are going to have three sections: 1. The development and brief history of handwriting and why it was so important back in the day before technology took a huge leap, 2. How the advancement of technology changed/replaced handwriting (modernism), and 3. How handwriting and technology are now working together, handwriting is making a comeback (postmodernism)

Paragraph at start about how technology has changed handwriting through time

Grandparents/parents have really good handwriting from their generation, our generation writes messy, then we start using typewriter and then keyboard and now just our fingers with the ipad.

The whole entire publication will pose a question: how we think handwriting within typography will progress in the future…

the future of handwriting

Relationship between your hand and the end result

Difference between how you used to use your hands while handwriting (from pen usage to keyboard to ipad to even speaking into a computer)

Relationship btwn technology and typography

-Emotive

-Language and communication

-physicality of typography (hand, typewriter, keyboard, iphone, tablet)

-Handwriting as typeface

-Handwriting in graphic design

Possible titles:

reinterpreting handwriting

reflections on handwriting

grid structure should reflect the content

the handwriting (content), and the way you use hands, the grid structure will be different

how handwriting has embraced technology

HERE ARE OUR THREE SECTIONS:

1. how handwriting developed

2. how technology has changed handwriting (relate to modernism)—handwriting gets dumped

3. how handwriting is now changing technology (postmodernism)—handwriting makes a comeback

when advances in technology and demise of handwriting clash

-the graphs: first one shows the rise of technology, second one shows the demise of handwriting, and third one shows them meeting in the middle and becoming one.

how we will never stray away from handwriting—the legacy of handwriting

we could use our own images—calligraphy

teams should meet up and discuss ideas and make up some images before Friday

editorial team (Sachiko, Justin, Carissa)- work on content, bring in print outs, exchange files

style guides team (Lauren, Sachiko, Herman, Margarita)- draft of structure (should be a flexible structure)-- headings, subheadings, size of font, what font we’re using

graphics team (Alana, Herman, Cam, Margarita)- examples of some images, sketches, include logo