Type Education

Full of ressources for type design education by Hannes F. Famira.

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Speedball workshop at The Hague

Through his new education blog powered by Textpattern, Erik van Blokland posted: “A movie of the workshop by John Downer at TypeMedia. Give it some time, it’s on my local server.” Click here after to watch it!

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Most of Type are junk!

Its probably a good book on typography, but I noted that as usual, most of typefaces to which Ellen Lupton refer are mostly, specially when she refer to “not post Swiss admited list of classics type:”

US origin
Netherland origin or lookalike

There is also good text faces in many other countries, including Switzerland!

Seriously, I really prefer pragmatic approch, more open to the real need of the users rather than elistist (understand like that for now) approch who seems, by advance, to put a definitive list of typefaces: The only ones to use in any kind of job you have to do. There is no bad type, only bad typography.

→ les commentaires — jfp le 1.10.04 — cat. pas atelier

Education in type design

The last few years have seen a revival of interest in typeface design courses. The panelists start with a very very quick presentation each on their respective course, then open the floor to questions from the audience. We look forward to both the easy questions (like “what do students get out of the course?”) and the tricky ones (“why should we teach typeface design formally?”) Between Student and Teacher.

ATypI Prague conference.
Gerry Leonidas, Erik van Blokland, Bas Jacobs, Jean François Porchez. Education in type design. 15:30 – 16:15, Archa Hall 2

→ les commentaires [2] — jfp le 6.09.04 — cat. pas atelier

Toulouse Workshop

Alejandro Lo Celso conducted a typedesign workshop in Toulouse, south of France last May 2004. Its interesting to see how, despite various ways to doing it, writing is still the best way to give essential elements to students to understand type. The website is in Flash, so, follow the links and click on story to read the comments about it. Check also on same website, is comments and images on his visit to a Design school in Chile in 2003.

Have fun with letters as real body is great to understand boring typography!

→ les commentaires — jfp le 29.07.04 — cat. pas atelier

Workshop: Principles of Type Design

Cooper Union’s Continuing Education department offer a Summer Type Design workshop on June 19-June 20 2004. It will be conducted by John Downer, a professional type designer and lettering artist, who will teach letterform proportions, optical weight adjustment & spacing. He will demonstrate both with a lettering brush and on the computer.

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