Introductions
We’re going to go introduce ourselves, and then go through the room and hear from all of you. Let us know your preferred name, pronouns, and something about you!
Goals for the course
Let’s go through the syllabus, our approach, and our community agreement.
We’ll take a break here, for about 10 minutes. Please be back on time; we have a lot to cover.
Why we think this is important
We’re going to talk about the web and why it is our pathway into typography and design.
For next week
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Complete the technical survey (a couple of you have not):
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Make sure to fill out your entry in the class list. These will help us a lot:
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Join the Slack channel and and say hi:
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Sign up for a GitHub account if you don’t have one! Do this with your
newschool.eduemail, then apply for the student benefits. You may use this GitHub account in your career, and you can always change your username (and add other email addresses) later. We’ll be using GitHub for our code. -
Sign up for Figma as well, and likewise apply for the education plan. We’ll be using this for visual sketching.
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Read both our first unit selections:
The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible
Beatrice Warde, 1932A Handmade Web
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And add your reading synthesis: