Project II – Physical Copy of Granjon Booklet
Category: Typography I
Project II – Typecase Booklet Final
Project II – Sketch Development
Project III – Final Designs
Project III – Sketches
How to… Make Quick, Simple and Sweet Baby Back Ribs
Project I: How to… List
Topic: Quick, Simple and Sweet Baby Back Ribs
Audience: Families, hosts of Super Bowl parties or other party events
Introduction:
Are you tired of laboring over a hot stove for three hours to cook the perfect spare ribs? Those days are over with this quick and simple pressure cooker recipe. Within one hour, you can have the tastiest spare ribs to serve your guests at any Super Bowl party or any other event that you are planning to host.
Servings: Serves up to 8 people
Supplies:
- 1 electric pressure cooker (min. 3 qt.)
- 2 racks of pork baby back ribs
- 1 straight edge knife
- 1 cutting board
- 1 foil-lined baking sheet
- 1 small mixing bowl
- 1 mixing spoon
- 1 pair of tongs
- 1 basting brush
- 11 cups of water
- 2 tsp salt
- ½ tsp pepper
- 1 ½ cups of brown sugar
- ½ cup of cola
- 6 fl. oz. pineapple juice
- ½ cup of your favorite BBQ sauce
- ½ cup of maple syrup
- 2 tbsp of soy sauce
Steps:
1) Remove spare ribs from packaging and wash thoroughly with water.
2) Cut racks into three sections consisting of four ribs each.
3) Place each section into pressure cooker.
4) Add water up to “fill line” in pressure cooker.
5) Add two teaspoons of salt and ½ teaspoon of pepper.
6) Place lid on pressure cooker and set timer on ‘pressure cook’ for fifty minutes.
7) While the ribs are cooking, mix the following ingredients in a bowl: 1 ½ cups of brown sugar, ½ cup of cola, 6 fl. oz. of pineapple juice, ½ cup of your favorite BBQ sauce, ½ cup of maple syrup, and 2 tablespoons of soy sauce.
8) When the ribs are done, remove them with tongs from the pressure cooker, and place the ribs on the foil-lined baking sheet.
9) Place the baking sheet in the oven on high-broil for one minute.
10) Remove baking sheet, turn the ribs over, and return them to the oven on high-broil for one minute.
11) Remove the ribs from oven, coat the underside of the ribs using a basting brush with one-half of the sauce.
12) Place ribs back under the broiler for no more than thirty seconds.
13) Remove the ribs, turn them over and coat with remaining sauce.
14) Return the ribs to the broiler for no more than thirty seconds.
15) Remove and enjoy.
Project I – How to…
Research
I. Direct Research
This website explains the difference between baby back spare ribs and spare ribs.
This website provides a guide to selecting the best baby back spare ribs and spare ribs for your party or cook out. In addition, it provides a guide for the preparation of the ribs prior to cooking.
This website explains the benefits of a pressure cooker. Not only is cooking with a pressure cooker healthy, but it cooks the food 70% faster than the oven and keeps the food moist.
- “The Slow-Fast Advantage.” Taste of Home, 2018, pp. 4-7.
This article, which appears in the 2018 edition of Taste of Home, explains the advantages of both slow cooking vs. fast cooking and provides pressure cooker tips.
This Good Housekeeping website reviews the various pressure cookers that are on the market that will make cooking quick and easy.
This Food Network website has recipes for baby back spare ribs, spare ribs and short ribs.
This website explains “how to” make pressure cooker baby back ribs. It is an instructional website that provides the basic supplies and ingredients needed for cooking baby back spare ribs, along with kitchen tested cooking times.
This blog is written by a dad who prepares dinner every night. This is a “how to” blog with a time enhanced video showing the steps in preparing pressure cooker baby back spare ribs.
This “how to” website shows how to make pressure cooker baby back spare ribs in advance of your party or event.
II. Related Research
This blog was developed by Ree Drummond, otherwise known as “The “Pioneer Woman.” It was this blog that launcher her television show on the Food Network which is also called “The Pioneer Woman.” She lives on a cattle ranch in Oklahoma and focuses her culinary skills on simple, hearty meals, comfort food, as well as parties and other events. Her blog and books convey a warm, family friendly atmosphere. Her blog contains hundreds of recipes with simple step-by-step instructions.
- Drummond, Ree. Dinnertime. Harper Collins Publishers, 2015.
This book contains The Pioneer Woman’s comfort classic dishes, 16-minute meals and other dishes for dinner. This book is a pictorial guide to cooking as each step in the preparation is photographed. Even the beginner cook would feel confident following these directions.
Ina Garten, also known as the “Barefoot Contessa,” is another well-known Food Network chef. She created a beautiful website with spectacular photographs that show case her meals. These photographs would make any foodie’s mouth water. Ms. Garten also includes videos showing how her recipes are prepared. In the background, there is music that is upbeat but consistent with her image as the “Barefoot Contessa.” Her website also has links to her Instagram and Facebook accounts.
- Garten, Ina. Barefoot Contessa Family Style. Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2002.
This book contains the Barefoot Contessa’s easy recipes that are intended to make your dinner guests feel like a part of the family. This book not only explains in simple steps how to prepare each meal, but Ms. Garten invites the reader in her home; provides ideas for setting a dinner table; and the joy in cooking together with family and friends. The photographs beautifully depict each of the meals in her book.
- Laurence, Meredith. Comfortable Under Pressure. Walah! LLC Publishers, 2012.
This is a cookbook that would make anyone who is afraid of using a pressure cooker to fear not. Ms. Laurence provides a wonderful introduction about Pressure Cooking alieving any fears that your pressure cooker may explode as they have been improved significantly over the years. She provides pressure cooker tips and how to convert recipes for the pressure cooker. In each of her recipes, she explains the length of time for cooking and all other settings for the pressure cooker.
Bobby Flay, another Food Network chef, is well-known for his grilling techniques. This website shows that cooking is not just for women, but provides a male perspective to cooking and grilling. Bobby Flay provides step by step instructions for each of his recipes. In addition to the main meal, he provides the perfect sides to any spare rib recipe.
This website, which is sponsored by PC Magazine, provides the best “How-to and DIY Sites.” Some of the recommended websites include Instructables.com, Expertvillage.com, WikiHow and Howcast. This is a good resource with instructional videos on a variety of subject matters.
III. Inspirational Research
This is the NFL website. During football season, there are many families that attend football games and tailgate parties. Such celebrations are carried through the Super Bowl where families host parties during which the Super Bowl is watched on TV. Super Bowl hosts prepare a variety of foods ranging from chicken wings to spare ribs.
2. https://www.yahoo.com/news/macy-4th-july-fireworks-show-123001290.html
4. http://www.countryliving.com/entertaining/g801/summer-party-ideas-0609/
5. http://www.journeyoflight.com/photo-gallery/midwest
6. https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/farm.html
7. https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/family-gathering.html
8. http://emptyeasel.com/2009/04/16/the-long-history-of-food-in-art/
9. https://www.front-porch-ideas-and-more.com/country-porches.html
IV. General Information to Consider when deciding on an App or Website
- A mobile app is a software program that a consumer can download onto their smartphone, tablet, etc.
- Apps are designed for many purposes: to access news, games, weather, books, dating, dog walking services, etc.
- Not all apps use the same operating system.
- Some apps are offered for free. You can make money in several ways: Sell advertising space; sell upgrades to the app that provides more features than the basic version; Apps can be used as a form of advertising to introduce the consumer to the family of products offered by a company.
- Apps can assist a business to gain access to consumer information including telephone and email contacts; internet data; and the device’s location.
2. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/306209
Nine Things to know about apps:
- Research your target market
- Capture the attention of your audience in seconds
- Keep customer’s interest alive in the app
- The cost of the app will increase with more images and animation
- Keep use of app simple
- Test your app
- Update your app
- Limit app functions – only focus on core functions
- Raise awareness of your app – promote your app because it will not sell itself.
3. https://www.entrepreneur.com/slide
Creative ways to Promote an App for Free:
- Build a microsite that shows off your App to a web audience
- Build a teaser website one or two months prior to launch of app
- Start a blog
- Promote the app on your Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin profile
- Create a product video
- Get Press
- Get noticed on App review website
- Start a podcast
- Collect emails
- Post images from App to Pinterest Board
- Form a Facebook Group with in interest in the content of your app
- Resolve negative reviews
- Offer promotional prices
4. https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/6783-mobile-website-vs-mobile-app.html
Apps vs. Mobile Website:
- Apps allow your business to quickly reach your customer base that is already aware of your brand.
- App can be used off-line such as finding a store location or store hours. However, maps and making purchases require on-line access.
- Publicizing and maintaining Apps can be time consuming. Must be aware of the different operating systems and stay in compliance with regulations of Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
- Businesses should have a mobile website as a complement to the App. The website is immediately available to the user and available across all operating systems. The website helps to promote the App because the consumer must be directed to an App Store in order to download the content.
5. https://www.newmediacampaigns.com/blog/the-difference-between-apps-and-mobile-websites
Apps vs. Mobile Websites:
- An App can run with high performance by using native code.
- Apps are available at App Store
- Apps can work off-line for limited information
- Apps can be launched in a single step
- Native code only works on single platform
- Cannot be found directly on the web.
- Mobile websites can work on any mobile platform.
- Mobile websites are faster and cheaper to develop.
- It is now possible to embed a mobile website into an App using technology like Phonegap.
- Website can be found through Google search.
- Website can be easily updated.
- Website may not be able to access all smart phones.
- Hard to charge for access or usage to website.
- Several steps are required by customer to bookmark the site.
6. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/298400
Free tools to make your visual content on apps or websites more eye-catching
- Coolors – Provides color palette to generate colors that complement each other.
- Type Genius – Helps find fonts compatible with your design.
- Pexels – Offers selection of high-quality free images.
- Picmonkey – Edits original photos.
- Canva – Helps to create layouts.
- Snapseed – If your business uses Instagram or Facebook, Snapseed edits photos on the go.
- Visme – Enables you to transform ideas into engaging visual images.
Project II – Sketches and Critiques
At the beginning of this project I was very confused as how to make this booklet interesting enough to draw people to look at it. In the beginning, I followed the grid very strictly, and I realized that this became my biggest downfall. I also realized that I needed to be more creative in my design. As, I got more and more feedback on my booklet in the creation process, I realized that I can create and interesting design through size and textiles. I incorporated some textiles in the front and back of the booklet that were popular in the 1930’s to bring the viewer back to that time period. I also experiment with text size and lack of color in the middle of the booklet in order to bring the viewer back to the modern day of design. However, I did feel limited using large text that flowed off of the page due to the fact that we could not bleed our designs off the page.
Project II – Granjon Font Research
Category: Serif
Classification: Old Style
Year: 1928 (Roman and Italic)
1930 (Bold)
Designers: George W. Jones (Roman and Italic); Chauncey H. Griffith (Bold)
George W. Jones (1860-1942)
- Jones was born in Upton – on – Severn in Worcestershire.
- He worked from 1921 to 1938.
- Jones was a British printer and type designer in the late 19th and 20th
- He was a printing adviser to Linotype & Machinery Ltd. in Britain.
- Jones was the director of typography for the British Printer.
- The epitome of Jones’ career was when he became the printer to the King and Queen of Belgium.
- All of Jones’ typefaces, except for Venezia, are Linotype typefaces.
- Jones designed the Granjon font, Roman and Italic, in 1928 for Linotype & Machinery.
Chauncey H. Griffith (1879-1956)
- Griffith worked as a typeface designer, as well as a type and machine setter.
- He started his career in typography in 1915 as an assistant to the President of the Mergenthaler Linotype and thereafter, he became a specialist in newspaper fonts.
- In 1930, Griffith designed the Granjon font in bold weight.
- He became Vice President for Mergenthaler Linotype in 1936.
Development of Granjon Font:
- The Granjon font was based on Claude Garamond’s 16 point roman that was used in a book that was printed by Parisian printers Jacques Dupuys in 1554 and Jean Poupy in 1592.
- Linotype stated that the Granjon font was based on a typeface sample from the Frankfort Font Foundry Engenoloff dating back to 1592. The romans were designed by Claude Garamond, and the italics were designed by Robert Granjon.
- Granjon is a little less crisp in cut that either Sabon, Stempel Garamond, or Berthold Garamond. It is a fine text typeface.
- The Granjon font has been described as a revival of French Renaissance typeface.
- Granjon Roman is considered a true Garamond.
- Because there were several other Garamonds on the market in the 1920’s, Jones decided to name his font “Granjon” after the sixteenth-century French printer, publisher and letter cutter Robert Granjon. Robert Granjon was known for his beautiful italic types.
- The Granjon font was popular in the metal type era. During this era, typography was a technique of printing with movable type. Type was a piece of metal with a raised face at one end and a reversed image or character. These metal types were inked and then pressed on paper so text could be printed.
- Granjon is perhaps the most readable font and has been used by Reader’s Digest since its founding. Granjon Roman is very similar to the serif font that is used in the Gucci wordmark.
The Man Behind the Name: Robert Granjon
- Son of Paris printer and publisher Jean Granjon
- He was originally trained as a goldsmith
- He worked in Paris, Lyon, Frankfurt, Antwerp, and Rome for several printers
- 1543-1548 he worked as a steel punch cutter
- In 1549, he publishes his first book which is a pocket edition of the New Testament in Greek and Latin
- 1550-1551 he works for type founder Michel Felandat
- 1556-1557 he works as a punch cutter type founder, printer and publisher in Lyon
- In 1557 he also designs the first italic font called Civite which earned Granjon great fame
- The first book to use this font was Dialogue de la vie et de la mortby Ringhieri (1557)
- 1562, he moved back to Paris to work as a punch cutter and type founder
- 1563-1570 he worked closely with Christoph Plantin
- 1570-1574 he offers his fonts for sale at the Frankfurt fair
- 1578 he goes to Rome because Pope Gregory XIII wants him to cut exotic type for the Vatican’s printing workshop
- While in Rome at this time, he worked on different types of Oriental characters that were needed by the Catholic missionaries: Armenian (1579), Syriac (1580), Cyrillic (1582), and Arabic (1580-1586)
- He also created a Greek typeface called Parangnne Grecque
- Overall, Granjon created 9 typefaces and a set of musical symbols. When he worked as a punch cutter, he designed about 50 different alphabets, for which he cut 6,000 punches.
Garalde Research “Old Style”
- Garalde includes some of the most popular serif typefaces today
- Designed in 16th and 17th centuries (1500s – 1700s)
- Some famous designers include Claude Garamond and Aldus Manutius
- Some distinctive features of Garalde include a horizontal bar on a lowercase “e”, slightly greater contrast between thick and thin strokes compared to Venetian typefaces, an axis curves that are leaning to the left, and bracketed serifs
- Characterized by low (moderate) contrast between thick and thin strokes and the serifs are usually rounded
Works Cited
“Font Designer – Chauncey H. Griffith.” Linotype. https://www.linotype.com/398/chauncey-h-griffith.html. Accessed 20 Dec. 2017.
“Granjon.” My Fonts, https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/granjon/. Accessed 20 Dec. 2017.
Meggs, Philip B., and Carter, Rob. “Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces.” Wiley, 28 Dec. 1993, pp. 188. https://books.google.com/books?id=AHq-uK6F-PUC&pg=PA188&lpg=PA188&dq=granjon+font&source=bl&ots=bjWwdAcG6h&sig=M67xrP8b5MtndbA_kW_ZqYCCp8I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzxK-JwZfYAhUCYyYKHVNvBOY4FBDoAQg2MAM#v=onepage&q=granjon%20font&f=false
http://www.adobepress.com/articles/article.asp?p=1816000
https://speckyboy.com/the-classification-of-fonts/. Accessed 20 Dec. 2017.
“The History of Gucci and Their Logo Design.” Logomyway, 29 Dec. 2016, http://blog.logomyway.com/history-of-gucci-and-their-logo-design/. Accessed 20 Dec. 2017.
“Typography.” Fonts2U, https://fonts2u.com/references/typography.html. Accessed 20 Dec. 2017.
Wallis, Lawrence. “George William Jones.” Luc Devroye, 19 Dec. 2017, http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-34416.html. Accessed 20 Dec. 2017.
Project VI – Finals
Overall, I am pleased with these designs. The image on the left is my sober design and I feel that it catches the viewer’s attention but I am not happy with the placement of the bolded words. In this design, I decided to bold the phrases regarding peace. In the first four lines, I like how there was a change from a non bolded line to a bolded line. However, I do not like how the fourth and and fifth lines are bolded. I would rather have the sixth line bolded, but the word peace was not mentioned in this line.
The second design is my audacious design. I am pleased with the way that it turned out. After the critique, I moved the word “Cause” to align left since it did not match with the rest of the paragraph, which was also left align. I noticed that with the bolded words, there is no pattern to them. This lack of organization caused a problem with me in my sober design. However, it does not cause a problem since this is considered to be an audacious design.
Jacquelyn DeRocher 