Today I was asked in to cover for a member of staff at Liverpool John Moore’s University. The morning session involved me teaching adobe illustrator to first year Ba Graphic Arts students. This was the first time some of the students had used the software and so it was quite an intense morning for them. Half way through they weren’t taking any more information in and so we had a half hour break whilst I typed up some shortcut sheets for them to use whilst completing the next task. The whole day was scheduled for me but I could add to it as I felt I needed to. The schedule had the students performing simple tasks in illustrator, drawing paths, shapes and learning how to manipulate them with the pathfinder tool. Later this then translated into outlining a font and manipulating this with the skills they had learnt in the morning. Afre they had completed their tasks I gave them some examples of typographers who I thought might help them in their work.
In the afternoon Ant Ovenden came to join me in a crit with the second group. This group had to present one word that they had chosen and created combing two different fonts. This was done in the computer room with the work projected onto the wall. Each student was encouraged to talk a bit about their piece and then the group would have a bit of a discussion about what they thought about that piece, how it could be improved, where they imagined the typeface being used. Some of the students were still a bit stumped on how to use certain tools in illustrator and so at the end of the crate I went over anything the group were unclear on and again showed them some inspirational typography designers.
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