The Campus of Dima Barbanel hosts another week-long typographic workshop. This is a unique chance to learn new techniques for working with form and letters, for acquiring skills in working in a font editor and developing your own font.
Participants receive an extended trial license and can purchase their own full license at a discount.
Workshop: Type to Play 2018
- When?
23 September — 30 September
10:00 am – 10:00 pm - Who?
Dima Barbanel
Vlad Kolomeytsev
Nick Nedashkovsky - Where?
Desna - Burevestnik, Moscow, Russia, 142793
- How much?
EUR 490 with accommodation
EUR 350 without accommodation - For whom?
No prior experience is required in the typeface design, but some experience with Bézier-based vector drawing tools is useful.
- Prerequisites
Bring your MacBook with Glyphs 2 preinstalled.
- Links
During the course, participants will learn how to create modular (using not digital but different plastic rulers or modules from it) and variable fonts, learn how to collect information (make a research) about certain typefaces, trying to go beyond the traditional methods of calligraphy and finally students will create a grocery design from the modules from which they made their typefaces, namely they create chairs from them.
Program:
- modular typeface using analog templates
- 3D composition design
- development of typeface from lettering
- fine calligraphy
- variable fonts
- designing a modular chair
- final exhibition with results