Throughout time and across cultures, humans alter the mundane, everyday to offer expressive creative acts and communications through their own hand-crafted gestures.

This lesson serves as a moment to step back, and think about type through composition. As artists, we sometimes see type design as a thing that needs to live digitally, and this brings a new idea of organic and on-paper creation. Through exploration, students will also find the expressive quality that different fonts and typographic elements can harness. While the end piece will be an inked saying, the option to choose their phrase and typefaces allow expressive and creative freedom for this assignment.

Artists will be introduced to the many examples of typography in the design world (including contemporary and some historical pieces)

Artists will begin to think of type as a compositional element instead of words. They will use this thinking to create dynamic layouts.

Artists will continue to hone their craftspersonship with the use of drafting with pencil, tracing, and inking finalized pieces.