The design of a typeface is a complex process, but it follows a logic that can be formalized by constructive elements, such as the module, that can respond to an appearance based on the strokes created with a tool or in standardized geometric shapes. A selection of these elements can be established by a series… Continue reading Typographic Stencils as a Creative and Didactic Tool
How can we build a strong ecosystem for type design Thailand? To answer the question, it is better to start from the root. Let’s explore a landscape of what is actually going on in type design and typography education in Thailand. It has been more than two decades since design curriculums of various Thai universities… Continue reading The Importance of Education Through the Lens of Business in Thailand
This workshop will be conducted in two two-hour sessions over the course of two days. You must sign up for both sessions in order to confirm your participation. Part 1 will take place at 9:00 am Eastern on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. Part 2, the essential feedback session, will take place at 9:00 am Eastern… Continue reading Get a Taste of Hangul Type!—Part 1 of 2
Over the past several semesters, Rob McConnell has been using typeface design in his typography course as a way to help students dive deep into what makes letters work. It’s been a constant balancing act between project length, outcomes, and student skill level. This presentation shares how and why McConnellcreated this project as well as… Continue reading Introducing Typography through Type Design
This talk presents stories of creative obfuscation for communication from the past, present, and future. Examples include speculative typography that utilizes augmented reality, biotechnology, machine learning, and techniques created by non-experts that engage multiple senses like voice and gesture. The non-expert demonstrates the breadth of human ingenuity for primal need and desire, often against much… Continue reading Typographic Obfuscation: Communication for Privacy and Protest
This presentation examines the background, development, and influence of the Argentinian design and typography magazine tipoGráfica (1987–2007). The talk starts with a short introduction on the emergence of graphic design in Argentina and one of its most influential personalities and founder of tipoGráfica magazine, Rubén Fontana. This leads into an overview of the journal’s design,… Continue reading The tipoGráfica Magazine and the Emergence of a Latin American Typography Community
When choosing fonts for a design project, it is necessary to understand the context of the problem, the characteristics of the content, user needs, and support restrictions; resulting in a complex cognitive process. In addition, the growing number of digital fonts available today increases the complexity of this decision-making. In order to decide the most… Continue reading Typographic Selection: A Model With Criteria and Evaluation Matrix to Support Your Choices
LEAD: Letterpress Educators of Art & Design fosters a network of letterpress educators to facilitate sharing of knowledge and expand connections in the community. We provide opportunities to engage discourse, advance research and scholarship, and work to expand understanding of the value of letterpress education as an essential practice in contemporary learning. Letterpress in higher… Continue reading LEAD: Letterpress Educators of Art & Design
Wood type has a significant and historical impact on American letterpress printing, defining the current techniques and practices taught throughout universities today. Wood type is highly desired because it’s light, impactful, and has unique character traits. The challenge lies in the lack of accessibility to these typefaces. Wood type is rare and scarcely made today… Continue reading Wood Type – Historic and Interdisciplinary Practices in Letterpress Education
This presentation will go through the process of a TypeMedia project, and will be a reflection on the roman alphabet, and the relation between uppercase and lowercase. The Latin script is a bicameral script, and uses two alphabets for a given language. Those two alphabets originally belonged to different ways of writing from different periods… Continue reading T]M20 Project: The adaptation of roman capitals construction to lowercase