Playing with Type

After Tracy Collins mentioned him, I looked up Mario Garcia's blog.  Wow.  Some excellent ideas and links there on all sorts of topics.

I looked at the graphics on this page:

http://garciamedia.com/blog/articles/type

I especially liked this one:


It gave me a fun idea for an assignment.  Why not have students take a typeface and match it with a visual "letter" to spell out a word describing the font?

I also think it would be interesting to ask students to match fonts with celebrities and to explain how they match.  I love this stuff!  I had wanted to be a graphic designer when I was a whippersnapper, but chose a different path.  I like how being a journalism adviser lets me play in that world again.  I really value learning from an expert like Tracy Collins so I can help my students see how much fun design is.  But even more importantly, I want them to understand its storytelling power.

Bonnie Katzive
Monarch High School
Louisville, CO.