GOT TYPE?

Ai New York City Graphic Design faculty Marcos Chavez worked with his GD112 Typography 1 class teaching them not only the fundamentals of typography but also inspired his class to make a series of experimental typefaces using some unconventional materials .  Students were asked to create the following installations:

• What?  Students were asked to create the word 'what?' from the five classic typefaces (Garamond, Baskerville, Bodoni, Century and Helvetica).  They manipulated the appearance of the word through folding and curving the paper.  The fruits of their labors were brought together in a large wall installation.
• Dirty Type - Students used dirt to create a large version of the Baskerville Italic.  Their work was then installed in a 7th Floor corridor.
• Condom Typography - Students worked in three teams to create an original alphabet from packaged, newly opened and blown up condoms.
• Helvetible - Students worked as a class to create a full alphabet out of various foods (one food item per letter) using Helvetica Bold and the foundation for the letters.
• Hell-vetica - Students created illustrated type that gave the Swiss face a "hellish" spin.

Check out the photos below.  Kudos go to the following students/faculty:

Marcos Chavez - Typography 1 Instructor and last but certainly not least ... the GD112 Typography I Students!

Damian Antommarchi
Victor Atencio
Kevin Cole
Pedro Cotto
Michelle Gonzalez
Juan Jimenez
Malika Kendrick
Sean McNeil
Ngozi Medina
Benjamin Nuamah
Cristian Pacheco
Marie Smith
Kyree Stewart
Jeremy Torrez
Raymond Vargas
Anthony Woodson

Creating the What? Project

What? Project Installation

Creating Dirty Type Installation

Dirty Type Installation

Condom Typography - Packaged

Condom Typography - (left to right - Newly Packaged and Blown Up

Helvetible Typography



Hell-vetica Illustrations