Typography Teacher Resources

Students design and create business cards using Adobe Photoshop. Once they have applied techniques of typography and layout design, students identify redesign aspects and its importance in the design process. In a slide show, completed...

Students identify marine animals that could become stranded due to coastal features and currents. They plot data on worksheets for locations of sea turtles actually beached or stranded. After plotting their points, they hypothesize...

Students create a logo design to express their own identity. For this logo design lesson, students list ten words to describe who they are and choose two of them to use in a logo. Students draw images and choose various forms of...

Students look at several illuminations on the first pages of books. They compare these illuminations to an alphabet book, noting the similarities and the dissimilarities. Students look at various type fonts in a typography book or on a...

Help potential job seekers create a personal job options list that "fits" their personality type. They will discover specific occupational information about two chosen careers. Then they will identify the most important factors to keep...

Explore art and revolution that dawned in the mid 20th century. Constructivism, Bauhaus, and de stijl are all covered in this visually stimulating presentation. 

Can't read this now, I'll have to check it out later. A teacher's time is always limited. So often as we peruse the web for personal and professional content, we come across sites and information that we cannot immediately...

Here is a hard-hitting, cross-curricular lesson on the effects that the deforestation of the Ozark forests in the 19th century had on the people, animals, and ecosystems of the area. The Dr. Seuss book The Lorax is used as a way of...

Young geologists become familiar with the Karst Topography in the Ozark Mountains. They study how human activity has affected the cave ecosystem. They conduct a simulation in which a large development is proposed in the area, and they...

Though it is Emily Bronte's only novel, Wuthering Heights became one of the greatest of all-time. The classic novel gets an update in the form of an eBook. Readers learn about Heathcliff, Catherine, Edgar, and the other characters...

Students produce calligraphy projects using writing skills and unique tools in this six-day Art activity. Emphasis is placed upon the work of Portland, Oregon calligraphy artist Inga Dubay and her experiences with "Italic" writing...

Tenth graders design a CD cover and compare and contrast traditional and drawing methods with the use of AppleWorks and Photoshop software. They create a professional design layout using AppleWorks, and present their design in the form...

Students investigate recycling by creating receptacles that can hold trash or recyclable items.  In this graphic design lesson, students encourage their classmates to help save the environment by using a recycling receptacle they...

Tenth graders design their own ads and complete a full-size comprehensive of the final ad which showed color and final layout of the printed piece.

Students discover the uses of energy and the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources. They participate in hands-on activities to help them explain the concept of energy.

High schoolers explore the responsibilities of people working in advertising. They create a campaign to support the arts including advertisements in several different media. Length of unit depends on number of projects completed.

Students continue to practice with QuarkXPress, a desktop publishing program. Individually, they create their own certificates along with an original border, text and check boxes. To end the lesson plan, they complete a single sheet...

Students develop a business card to market them.  In this developing a business card to market them lesson, students design a business card to represent them.  Students create a logo or graphic design that is professional and...

Typographer-turned-lawyer blogs about the nature of typography, why it is important, and elements of basic, intermediate, and advanced typographical design.

Read some rules about typography that have changed because of the use of word processing rather than typewriters. This tutorial explains spacing after all punctuation, the use of em dashes and en dashes, and the use of italics.

This site from ABC Typography provides a historical look at the (main) different typefaces since the late 1400s. The site covers history and designers.

In Module 7 of this course on web design, students learn how to use CSS style rules to create the page layout, color scheme, and typography for a web site's design. From this, they learn how to create a template that can be used over and...

In Module 5 of this course on web design, students learn about the design elements of web page design. They learn about page layout, color schemes, typography, and site navigation.

Learn how color, layout, images, composition, typography, branding, and more relate to graphic design.