Christmas homework - create a font specimen sheet

Your homework is to create a font specimen sheet. You need to have a different font for each letter. You can use the ideas in the Chip Kidd book (above) or you can take the fonts from any appropriate source - this may include the following:

• magazines
• newspapers
• takeaway menus
• tickets
• flyers (one sheet print adverts)
• pamphlets
• carrier bags

When you return after Christmas you will have a page with 26 letters, A-Z - all in a different font. Yours will hopefully look similar to the one above.

Deadline: Thursday 5th January

Half-term homework: Start a graphic design collection

This is the first design project from Chip Kidd's brilliant book GO: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design.

Over the half-term have a go at this project. How you collate the images is up to you - you can make a scrap book of cut out images or you could do it all in word or publisher or  Photoshop (if you have it).

This is an optional task. If you have ambitions to gain an ATL of a 1 in assessment points then this is the sort of extra work you need to do.

You can buy Chip Kidd's book here.