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MIT OpenCourseWare
Digital Typography
Art: PSM V21 D058 The american grandfather stereoscope 1861, 1882 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. John Maeda
- Term
- Fall 1997
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 10 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare MAS.962 Digital Typography, Fall 1997, Prof. John Maeda — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- A lecture sequence of 27 items is confirmed. Assignment and exam materials exist too, but MIT's own order for them could not be verified, so they're shown as materials below rather than a sequence.
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Materials by section
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Assignments
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Lecture: History of Typography 1
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Lecture 3: Assignment 1 Review Lecture: Living Page Substrates / Neighborhoods
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Lecture 4: Lecture: History of Typography 2
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Lecture 5: Assignment 2 Review Lecture: Interactive Page Substrates
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Lecture 6: Lecture: Typography and Me
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Lecture 7: Assignment 3 Review Lecture: Phototypography
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Lecture 8: Lecture: Difficult Typography
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Lecture 9: Assignment 4 Review Lecture: Concrete Typography
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Lecture 10: Designer Talk: Ori Kometani: MIT Press Design
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Lecture 11: Assignment 5 Review Designer Talk: Hara Kenay
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Lecture 12: Quiz 1 Lecture: Digital Ink
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Lecture 13: Lecture: Representing Form
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Lecture 14: Assignment 6 Review Lecture: Handmade Type
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Lecture 15: Designer Talk: Matthew Carter: Typographic Traditions
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Lecture 16: Assignment 7 Review Lecture: Unstable Type
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Lecture 17: Lecture: Kinetic Typography
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Lecture 18: Design Activity 1 Lecture: Dynamic Legibility
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Lecture 19: Lecture: Dynamic Typography (D. Small, Visiting Lecturer)
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Lecture 20: Assignment 8 Review Lecture: _Travelling Type / Type on Vacation _(D. Small, Visiting Lecturer)
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Lecture 21: Designer Talk: Suguru Ishizaki: Webcastable Typography
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Lecture 22: Assignment 9 Review Lecture: Poetry Book
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Lecture 23: Review of Assignment 1 to Assignment 9
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Lecture 24: Creating a Tool
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Lecture 25: Assignment 10 Review
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Lecture 26: Exhibition Meeting
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Lecture 27: MAS.962 Exhibition
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. John Maeda, MAS.962 Digital Typography, Fall 1997.
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