Wednesday 26 November 2004
6:30
Public lecture: Jean François Porchez will speak about his own work to students. The lecture is also open to the public.
7:00—8:30 pm
Public Exhibition and Reception.
Sunday 28, Monday 29 November 2004
Free sightseeing day.
Events connected with the AUD type design worskhop (Dubai).
2 topics in parallel done by 2 groups of students.
The idea behind these two groups is to offer various methods to design typefaces, using various tools. During the few days, all students will be able to design their own letterforms, work in collaborative way and able to follow others methods in order to develop his critical sense.
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Firstly, take a look to various quicktime movies and images of past typeworkshops on this section. Its important that you will understood how it will happen.
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I will conduct a latin type design workshop at the Visual Communication Department, American University in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) between 24 and 27 November 2004. More details will be posted soon.
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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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:”
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.
Pour information, email et tract ciruclant à Ensad ces derniers jours.
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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