Using artlex.com You will find, document, and save 12 images/ jpegs/examples of typography in art throughout history. These images and information collected will be used in an mind map activity relating to typography and visual culture.

This site is a collection of over nine hundred and eight posters that were created from 1936 to 1943. They were part of President Roosevelt's New Deal. Many of the posters were created to advertise health and safety programs; educational programs; cultural programs art shows, theater, and musical performances, as well as other activities. You will use this site to chose one artist's work from this era. You will research the artwork, why it was created and the artist that created it and present this dated typography peice to the class in a short oral presentation.

The Web Gallery of art is an extensive collection of artist's and their work. This is another resource that you can go to to find artwork for your mind mapping assignment. You will be looking for particular types of artwork at this site that incorporate typography. I would like you to concentrate on the following forms of artwork:

PAINTING and  ILLUMINATION.

The artist's sketchbook is a personal look into who that artist is.This site, created by the Smithsonian allows us to glimps into the personal sketchbooks of many American artists from our past to our present. Visual media, text, culture and artistic solutions can all be represented within these sketchbooks. You are to find three sketchbooks that have a connection to typography in visual art within a series of the drawings and artwork in that particular sketchbook.We have learned that artists use sketchbooks as a map, a testing ground for ideas, and place to work out visual solutions. Pick one favorite artist out of the three that you have chosen and create an artwork in your own sketchbook based on some of the content that you have observed. Print out thumbnails and images of that particular artist's work and add it to your own sketchbook.