This document is an overview of a book about typography, design, and visual poetry in language arts classrooms. It discusses how typography can modify meaning in texts and how texts and typography are evolving with new technology. It covers topics like the history of typography, different fonts and their personalities, principles of design, kinetic typography, and concrete poetry. The goal is to think about how these topics relate to teaching and learning.

1. The Living, Speaking Hand: Typography, Design, And Visual Poetry In the Language Arts Classroom IVLA2009.chicago scott schwister

3. Guiding Questions How does typography modify meaning in texts? How are texts---and typography---evolving in response to changing technology? What does it mean for teaching and learning?

4. PROLOGUE A Brief History of Typography

5. Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an endless act of interpretation , full of endless opportunity for insight or obtuseness .

6. Typography in Motion

7. Chapter One: fonts Are you my type?

8. Letters are microscopic works of art as well as useful symbols. They mean what they are as well as what they say. --Bringhurst

9. Do fonts have Flavors? personalities? feelings?

15. iQ font by toyota driving = writing

16. design your own font. FontCapture

17. A brief interlude to talk about teaching and learning .

18. Chapter two: principles Honoring The Content

19. Invite the readers into the text. Reveal tenor and meaning. Clarify structure and order. Link text with other elements. Induce a state of energetic repose.

20. contrast size hierarchy space

25. A tale of three sites

26. Google

27. The New York Times Online

28. Boing Boing

29. We’re only skimming the surface. There’s much, much more.

30. CONCEPTS about PRINT Marie Clay

31. concepts about digital texts A new media checklist:

32. KINETIC TYPOGRAPHY! Who’s On First? Ocean’s Eleven

33. Another brief interlude to talk about teaching and learning .

34. Visual Poetry & Selected Oddities Chapter three: play

35. CONCRETE POETRY … the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem …

43. A final brief interlude to talk about teaching and learning .

44. THANK YOU.

45. font images tungsten: http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLineID=100035 megalopolis-extra: http://www.smeltery.net/fonts/megalopolis-extra facebuster: http://www.typetrust.com/fonts/font.php?id=NzQ3 tomate: http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/jazzfonts/tomate/

46. flickr image credits FELICIANO TYPE FOUNDRY »Morgans Sans Poster« verso & recto (for 24″ widescreen displays): http://www.flickr.com/photos/typoatelier/3517197745/ FDI »Iwan Reschniew« Bauhaus (for 24″ widescreen displays): http://www.flickr.com/photos/typoatelier/3624911181/ HUBERT JOCHAM »Narziss« - Ö - (for 24″ widescreen displays): http://www.flickr.com/photos/typoatelier/3639362346/ Roman Lowercase Letters (for 24″ widescreen displays): http://www.flickr.com/photos/typoatelier/364208399/ FELICIANO TYPE FOUNDRY »Morgans Sans Poster« Impact (for 24″ widescreen displays): http://www.flickr.com/photos/typoatelier/3686304927/ 4th february »Boldesqo Serif 4F« Clown (for 24″ widescreen displays): http://www.flickr.com/photos/typoatelier/3712177973/ OTTO MAURER »Mrs. Sabo« Fried Brain (for 24″ widescreen displays): http://www.flickr.com/photos/typoatelier/3981477480/ JUKEBOX »Eloquent« Ampersand (for 24″ widescreen displays): http://www.flickr.com/photos/typoatelier/3958771952/ JUKEBOX »Pistilli Roman« type&color I (for 24″ widescreen displays): http://www.flickr.com/photos/typoatelier/3462622333/ #2582: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_gonzales/2455059060/ Marat: http://www.flickr.com/photos/redsil/2935406702/ victor, tailor: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bright/59773262/ "Home" Typography One, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design: http://www.flickr.com/photos/miadcommunicationdesign/3081768484/ "Cup" Typography One, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design: http://www.flickr.com/photos/miadcommunicationdesign/3080929433 FUSE 18: Matthew Carter: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewf/1479856780/ wood type alphabet: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/2865554788/ Gadgets: http://flickr.com/photos/slipstreamjc/748716731/ RODRIGO FUENZALIDA »Gerd« (lowercase) Experimental Type II (for 24″ widescreen displays) http://www.flickr.com/photos/typoatelier/3550154617/

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