Typography 1 is a discipline-specific course comprised of a series of structured projects designed to teach the fundamentals of typography. Typography is the basic building block of graphic design. Its primary concern is language and the form it takes on a page, in an environment, or on a computer screen and how that can contribute to its meaning. The purpose of this class is to investigate the fundamentals of typography and to widen your knowledge of its history. Emphasis will be placed on a historical and contextual understanding of typography. What this means is that the way typography looks is a result of historical ideas about function, clarity, structure, and expression. A good typographer is aware of these historical ideologies and uses them to make meaning. This course will include topics such as typographic systems, information, and publication design.