Hierarchy of Typography

Overview

Hierarchy of Typography is an 8 week course taught by legendary designer and mentor, Milka Broukhim. The course offered me the opportunity to relearn the fundamentals of design through a new medium. Throughout the course, I worked on hundreds of layouts using a set piece of text, introducing a new technique each week. The resulting practice and repetition engrain in you the power to take on a blank page without fear or hesitation. This book is a record of my experience throughout the course, including process work, inspiration, sketches, and final layouts.

process

Each week introduces one new tool such as scale, weight, rules, color, image and experimental. I would start with research and inspiration, then diving in to hand-drawn sketches which allow for free exploration. I then digitized each sketch and worked on multiple iterations to arrive at 15 finished layouts. From 15, we could edit down to 5 selects to be included in the book after further refinement.