First.

Hi all!

My name is Jared, and I am one of the few contributors to this blog. Let me first give a short overview of what we're doing here. I as well as my fellow contributors are all students in an independent study at the University of Central Oklahoma. We're all graphic design seniors and the purpose of the independent study is to act as a type of "in-house" design studio for the UCO Department of Design. The name of our design studio is "ink tank" and we're in the midst of our second project. Our first project in which we are fundraising for the department for updated technology/software, supplies, and other day-to-day essentials for the students and faculty. We were to create mailers for potential donors who would be interested in what our department does, not only for its students, but also for the design community. Our second project was to create a short film for youtube showcasing how prominent type is in our culture, good and bad.

We hope this blog can help serve to keep our readers and fellow students updated on not only the progress of our video, but of ink tank in general. This blog is also going to be where we can post interesting design and type related material.

I leave you with a youtube video made as a student project from the Vancouver Film school. It is the history of typography in 2 minutes. It's genius.



-Jared