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1. The document provides instructions for a text projection assignment that requires composing provided text within a 6x6 inch square in specific fonts and variations in alignment, leading, line length, orientation, and spacing while avoiding variations in weight or size. 2. Students are warned against "swimming" which is changing the size, style, spacing, and orientation of type without structure, and are advised to sketch ideas before starting. 3. The document provides deadlines for drafts and mounting the final project.

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Text Project

1. The document provides instructions for a text projection assignment that requires composing provided text within a 6x6 inch square in specific fonts and variations in alignment, leading, line length, orientation, and spacing while avoiding variations in weight or size. 2. Students are warned against "swimming" which is changing the size, style, spacing, and orientation of type without structure, and are advised to sketch ideas before starting. 3. The document provides deadlines for drafts and mounting the final project.

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te x t p r o j e c t Within a 6 x 6-inch square, compose the text provided below

in a manner that expresses its meaning. Use Adobe Garamond


and Adobe Garamond Expert only.* Use variations in alignment,
leading, line length, orientation, and spacing. Avoid variations
in weight or size. You may break the paragraph into smaller
elements and distribute them within the square. Be sure to have a
concept in mind as you work.

warning week one: first draft, trimmed and mounted with Glue Stick
No swimming or low-tack tape to 8.5 x 11-inch black board.
The most common problem week two: second draft, still presented with temporary
students encounter with this project
mounting.
is what I call “swimming.”

This happens when you start changing final project: mount final print, trimmed, onto an 8.5 x 11-inch
the size, style, spacing, and/or orientation piece of black board, using permanent double-stick tape.
of the type from word to word or line
*Acceptable alternative typefaces: Garamond 3, Stempel Garamond
to line without having a sense of
structure that holds the composition
together. Avoid swimming by sketching Print situates words in space more relentlessly than
use this text

ideas before you start working on the writing ever did. Writing moves words from the sound
computer. world to a world of visual space, but print locks words
Read the text; understand its basic into position in this space. Control of position is
meaning; break it into parts. How do everything in print. Printed texts look machine-made,
those parts relate to typographic forms as they are. In handwriting, control of space tends to
and structures? Don’t just jump in:
be ornamental, ornate, as in calligraphy. Typographic
think first.
control typically impresses most by its tidiness and
invisibility: the lines perfectly regular, all justified on
the right side, everything coming out even visually,
and without the aid of guidelines or ruled borders that
often occur in manuscripts. This is an insistent world
of cold, non-human, facts.
Quote adapted from Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy:
The Technologizing of the Word (London and New York:
Methuen, 1982).

Wrapping Text The gray box has a text wrap value This box has a text wrap
(or runaround) value of This box
In InDesign, this is done of one point. zero has no
with the Text Wrap window. runaround
Assign values to the object at all.
that you want your text to
wrap around. A 1-point A text wrap or To eliminate
In Quark, this is done runaround runaround the runaround
with a runaround, a value is the default value of zero altogether in Quark,
attached to the object that in Quark. is still a runaround. you must select
you want your text (Zero allows text to Item>none in the
to run around. come right to dialog box.
In Quark, go to the edge of a box.)
New objects in
Item>Modify>Runaround.
InDesign have
no text wrap.

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