The educational module (or lack of) for teaching design (Graphic) often leads to a speculative approach that seeks to represent the realities of working in industry. Hypothetical situations are introduced to mimic ‘real-life’ briefs, but there is nothing ‘real’ about this approach. Students are in a situation where they cannot test their work; there is… Continue reading Design, Culture & Reality
The resurgence of hand lettering in commercial graphic design is wonderful. This represents a sustained market for the human qualities of personalized, post-modern letterforms. But hand lettering is more than a style, it is born from a direct relationship between the hand, eye and mind of the typographer/designer, and offers teachers an excellent way to… Continue reading Learning the Strokes: Teaching Typography through Lettering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRd304Ec3IE The main thematic in this project is the digitalisation process of the demotic script (old script from Rosetta Stone). Typographic process have been included, in which the characters were given a contemporary design, adapted for today’s use in various technical and graphic applications. The main aim of this project is the determination of the… Continue reading Digitalization of the Demotic Script from the middle part of the text on Rosetta Stone
Last summer, Ann Bessemans’ research group READSEARCH was launched. READSEARCH provides a unique environment that brings together design researchers, typeface designers, scientists, students and stakeholders through research, courses and documentation. As a research group, READSEARCH focuses on reading research. Type design and/or typography is looked at from a multidisciplinary and scientific perspective, but always with… Continue reading READSEARCH – A Platform for Reading Research
At some point of the bachelor course, graphic design students are exposed to typographic studies. Through theory and practical assessments, they have to deal with topics related to type design, such as consistency, contrast, style and legibility. Having a notion of how to draw letterforms and relate them to each other is an essential knowledge… Continue reading Lessons from the first type exercise
There are a lot of subjects around typography, whether to learn how to design type or how to design with type; one of particular complexity is type classification, not only to learn it but to know the goods that can come for graphic designers by its understanding. In type classification we find cases that may… Continue reading Four categories in type classification: a strategy to organize type material for graphic designers
Increasingly, students exhibit a heightened reliance on digital tools to both create and influence their work. This often undermines a fundamental understanding of the relationship between form and content as it can prompt emulation rather than encouraging critical construction of formal representations and relationships. To circumvent this, a new project was developed with a focus… Continue reading Synoptic Translations