The beginning of typography was very overwhelming, as my mind was blown multiple times reading each page of the book. Through the course of the semester I learned lots of new things in both adobe illustrator and indesign. I also learned the value of practice excercises such as doing thumbnails. I think the biggest thing I learned as far as design goes is the proper way to use grids, and the importance of the grids. Being typography I obviously learned many new typefaces and the significance of using those typefaces and different versions of those typefaces, especially in terms of hierarchy of text. The rule that sticks out to me the most is changing one thing about the typeface in order to make it stand out first, and if it doesn’t make it stand out enough change something else, instead of making a certain chunk of text bold and italic and a different color and a different size. This semester was hard at times, and felt kind of useless since I’m not continuing in the graphic design program, but I do believe it helped my potential as an artist.
