so it begins!

despite this being the first blog of the rest of my life and all, i present it to you without any particular ceremony. it is here that i will be documenting my progress throughout the kcai graphic design program. thus far i have experienced one day of graphic design classes, a monday. it was a prototypical first day of school, complete with gut-wrenching nervousness and new notesbooks.

we were introduced to instructors, syllabi were looked over, academic dishonesty was heavily discouraged, and other necessary information was imparted. my classes on monday were color/form/production as led by kelly ludwig and level one typography by marty lane. each gave the genesis of this blog as homework.

the big department chat at the start of the day cut into kelly's class, so we dealt mostly with introductions and chose which black and white classic logos we wanted to use for our first project.

i chose nasa! reaching for the stars and all that jazz. we're about to redraw them, if i understand correctly. i will perhaps post a screenshot mid-vectoring because a final vector image exported to post online doesn't look any more impressive than the original jpg we're working from. oh well.

marty's typography class lent itself more eagerly to visual documentation that first day. we met the five fonts we'll be studying first. none of us really named them on the first go-round and we mostly looked very embarrassed about it once their identities were revealed to us. given that they are the namesake of our classrooms and all, they should've been a little more obvious. oh well, first day, we'll get there.

we spent time studying the lowercase "a" from each of those 5 typefaces, and learning to draw them, determining what made them distinctive and how to accurately replicate it. i did this very unprofessionally on lined paper with a pen. consequently, they're a little scribbly and a little smudgy. more apt supplies are required for the next class period. honestly, i'm probably going to bring some crayons? maybe. maybe something more unobtrusive, like pencils. maybe both.

in any event, some drawings of a's, no further ado

(postscript: the second day of school was pretty okay, too.)