Chapter 3: Type

Tuesday, February 4 | Discussion

• Browse the first volume of Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentle-Man (1760), with an eye not toward content but design and typography, external website
• Walt Whitman, “A Font of Type” (1891), external website
• Amaranth Borsuk, “The Book as Content” from The Book (2018), resource via library
• Find 2-3 videos of interest from Book Historia’s Bite Sized Book History series and be ready to share what you learned from them

Thursday, February 6 | Lab: Composition

• Watch videos 2-9 in this orientation playlist from my previous press (watch from “Investigating a Composed Form of Type” to “Woodcuts”). These will explain the basics of typesetting with a close-up video of the process and allow us to jump into our lab more quickly. This should take 30-40 minutes in total, but please pay close attention—the details are important.