NCERT Class 11 Graphic Design Movable Metal Type to Digital Imaging

EXERCISES

1. What do you understand by the word typography?

2. Describe the importance of type.

3. How did Johann Gutenberg’s hot metal technology make printing simpler?

4. Write a brief history of type foundry in the Indian context.

5. How have computers influenced the life of graphic designers and what role do computers play in the printing industry?

PRACTICALS

1. Draw six parallel lines with equal space and design your own typography, using basic shapes like circle, square and triangle with geometric tools, starting with alphabets and then your name followed by a whole sentence, keeping in mind the geometric relation between all the alphabets.

2. Make a design using your own initials (i.e. the first alphabets of your name and surname).

3. Write a quotation in your own designed typography.

4. Copy typography styles of different products available around you.

5. Make a logo type on a given subject or product.

6. Use roman alphabets to make few 2D/3D designs like a chair, accessories, apparel, a futuristic car, a cartoon or comic character, etc. and then digitally generate the design. Take a print of your work.

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