{"id":55,"date":"2009-09-10T01:39:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T08:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/10\/the-aesthetics-of-text\/"},"modified":"2009-09-17T14:11:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T21:11:28","slug":"the-aesthetics-of-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/10\/the-aesthetics-of-text\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aesthetics of Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"How does each book spine use text to draw the eye to the book?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22309082@N07\/2158205612\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2246\/2158205612_36a0fdbbae.jpg\" alt=\"How does each book spine use text to draw the eye to the book?\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22309082@N07\/2158205612\/\">Design Book Library 01  4<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/22309082@N07\/\">Outofprint<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I chose this photo because the bookshelf contains a collection of resources related to design, typography, text, and technologies. In the Module 1 course content, we are challenged to think about text and technologies in their varying forms and how it has evolved, become part of innovation and is being re-innovated. Not only are these books resources, but simple as they look, they also exemplify elements of design in the spines &#8211; creative ways of arranging text to convey typography.<\/p>\n<p>My name is Marjorie del Mundo. I have a background in interaction design and have worked in marketing and graphic design. Currently, I am completing my final week as an Educational Programmer for UBC Student Development and am looking forward to the launch of the Discover Your Major guide for undergraduate Arts students which I helped develop over the summer. During my design studies, I had to investigate and explore the use of text and typography as a foundation for creating layouts and spreads. In this course, I hope to expand my knowledge on how text and technologies impact the way we share information and communicate in various contexts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design Book Library 01 4, originally uploaded by Outofprint. I chose this photo because the bookshelf contains a collection of resources related to design, typography, text, and technologies. In the Module 1 course content, we are challenged to think about text and technologies in their varying forms and how it has evolved, become part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}