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Tameside College competition brief & the 3 different types of logos

Your task is to design a typographic logo which can be used around college for the English and Maths department

Part one create a mind map exploring all of the key elements your logo needs EG Tameside, the subject, education, numbers / letters / books, uses of Maths....

Part two create 6logos for English and 3 logos for Maths following the guidelines for the 6 different types of logo.

Each logo needs to be labelled with the type of logo it is
Do one page of English logos and one page of Maths logos

Describing type

Create a power point explaining and giving an illustrated example of each of thew following:
• Typeface/Font
• Upper case / Caps (or capitals)
• Lower case
• Numerals
• Glyph
• Other common ‘glyphs’: Question mark; Exclamation mark; Ampersand; Asterisk; Commercial ‘At’ symbol; Bullet point
• Point size • Leading
• Alignment styles: Set left/Flush left/Ragged right Set Right / Flush right / Ragged left Centred Justified
• Kerning
• Tracking
• Dingbats

History of Type Task

Whole class task - From the list below, each learner will each be assigned two typefaces to research. Findings will be presented to the group and collated to create a timeline of historical developments in typefaces.
• 1450 Guttenberg’s 42 Line Bible Textura
• 1469 Nicolas Jenson’s Roman
• 1501 Francesco Griffo’s Italic
• 1528 Claude Garamond’s Roman
• 1702 Philippe Grandjean’s Roman du Roi
 • 1754 John Baskerville’s Roman
• 1784 Firmin Didot’s Roman
• 1816 William Caslon IV’s Sans Serif
• 1817 Vincent Figgins Antique
• 1820 Robert Thorne’s Fat Face
• 1917 Edward Johnston’s Railway Sans
• 1927 Paul Renner’s Futura
• 1932 Stanley Morison’s Times New Roman
• 1953 Roger Excoffon’s Mistral
• 1957 Max Miedinger’s Helvetica
• 1984 Chicago: First Apple Computers Font
• 1990 P. Scott Makela’s Dead History
• 2000 Tobias Frere-Jones’s Gotham

History of fonts from Jo Lowes