Highly Defined Logo - aka HD Logo

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I was very fortunate to decide to take Typography this last quarter at the Art Institute, because I was able to be a student to Sigrid Cannon.  She is an incredible wealth of knowledge, yet unfortunately, she decided to retire at the end of this quarter.  The beauty of her class though was that she pushed me to create immense amounts of work and for the final, we had to make a book based on typography.  I used all my original work and wrote the body copy inside the book as well.  The most vital thing of the whole endeavor was that it forced upon me to start learning Adobe InDesign.  What an amazing program... here is the book cover I generated:




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