Type design workshop Such workshops allow me to share my experience and discover how the results I get depend on the structure of the brief. When asked for a design based on a classical font, students often produce listless work and lose interest. In fact, they can’t see the point. When the brief has few constraints, they are fired up and produce interesting work.
It is sometimes difficult to guide them away from grunge, picture and distressed fonts because working in that way requires almost no skill.
My aim is to guide them to: (1) First determine the purpose for which the type is to be used,
and the technical requirements. (2) Focus on regularity and differentiation; a typeface is a homogeneous unity made up of different characters; formally it must present a uniform image (rhythmical details, equal terminals, visually equal main stroke weights, very similar bowls etc.). But the basic forms should not be too similar, or it is difficult to distinguish them from each other; a balance has to be struck. Here is somedocumentation of the most recent workshop.
Over 210 student fonts have been produced under my tutorage during the past nine years.
Bellow are some announcements that you click on to enlarge and a small selection of student fonts.
