Difficulty: 6/10
Time Expected to Complete: 6+ Hours

Description
Many Graphic Artists design website mascots or characters out of vector images. Illustrator is a great tool to do this and is used often to create these little guys. In this assignment the students will experience making a character out of vectors, however the assignment differs from standard methods. This assignment will aid the student to create unity between both graphic and type, which will require creativity and encourage thought in typography selection and design. This also may be a good segway into the typography class later on in the visual technology program.

Directions & Items Required

1. Open up a new document in Illustrator (RGB)
2. Use a font manager or multiple instances of the alphabet, and experiment with different typefaces applied to each in order to determine the most effective font to be used.
3. Create a typeface character while abiding to these rules
   1. No more than one font to be used.
   2. No Pen tooling or any other tool to create an object. Strictly typography.
   3. Final product needs all fonts outlined.
   4. Fonts can not be manipulated to be anything different than they already are.
   5. No extended ASCII characters. Just stick to the basic keys on a keyboard.
   6. Extra points will be added for creativity (ie. a character created from a legible word that describes itself. Perhaps a character with a 3 dimensional to it) Get creative with the character.
4. Give a short description of the Font used and anything cool you did to create your character.
5. Post a separate JPG image of all the characters you used so we can break down the character more easily.
6. Post a JPG image of the final character in all its glory.
7. Post a link to the source file for review.
8. Post any other information you feel relevant.

*Tips*

• http://vector.tutsplus.com/articles/news/ultimate-type-twisting-with-adobe-illustrator-vector-plus-tutorial/
• http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects/how-to-create-typeface-characters/
• http://www.fontshop.com/help/glossary.php
• http://www.dafont.com/

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