December 2011
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Core seminars: French Academy letters
Core texts: André Jammes, “Académisme et Typographie: the making of the romain du roi.” In Journal of the Printing Historical Society no 1, 1965 James Mosley, “French academicians and modern typography: designing new types in the 1690s.”
Items on handout bibliography
Andrew Boag, ‘Typographic measurement: a chronology’. In _ Typography Papers 1_, 1996
Harry Carter, Fournier on...
November 2011
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Core seminars: Gerritt Noordzij (and approaches to...
Core texts: Gerritt Noordzij, The stroke of the pen, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, 1982
The stroke: theory of writing, Hyphen Press, 2005
GN-list archive 2003
Items on handout bibliography
Fernand Baudin and John Dreyfus (eds), Dossier a-z 73. Association Typographique Internationale, 1973
Eric van Blokland, Just van Rossum and Robin Kinross (eds), Gerrit Noordzij...
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Core seminars: Lettering and tools 1
[Note: Every couple of weeks a student leads a seminar on a specific topic. The seminars take the form of reports on one or more items (usually a key text) and the discussion covers a range of related resources. Seminars roughly shadow the progress of issues raised by practical work, and other teaching. (So, this first seminar took place a week after an introductory session on lettercutting, James...
October 2011
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Preparation for Greek typeface design
Here is a short list of references for students beginning to work on Greek. It is not exhaustive by any measure, only a starting point. I list some historical texts, for the necessary grounding in the development of the [typographic] script, and some typefaces that are good examples of practice. (Don’t get all worked up about the typefaces on the list: each one listed may have unresolved...
September 2011
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August 2011
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Palettes are evil
In a recent piece for #Eye80 I lamented the loss of insight in document design that the vertical flat screen and zoom brought. I also dropped an aside that “palettes are evil”. I wasn’t clear enough, and confused @mmBubbleTea who thought I meant colour palettes. I meant the interface ones, and I apologise for the confusion. I might as well explain briefly why I don’t like...
July 2011
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Summer reading for incoming MATD students
There are many good book and article lists on typography and graphic design that are worth checking out. This is not one of those: it does not replace, but adds to the standard reference lists for design. It is a very selective, short list specifically geared to students preparing for the MA Typeface Design.
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March 2011
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February 2011
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TDi+ 2011 is now open
A number of people have been getting in touch about the 2011 TDi+ summer course. The main site will go live soon, but I’m posting the text here to get the basics out: Diving into typeface design For over ten years the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication has been offering a world-class MA programme on Typeface Design that has redefined education in typeface design. In 2009...
A new type design competition for students →
This is well worth checking out. The organisers are careful to make it open only to currently enrolled students, and the very recently graduated: a true opportunity for budding talent.
There is an admirable core of people promoting typography in Poland, for a number of years now. I have had the pleasure of being part of events in Katowice, Cieszyn, and Warsaw – some of them several times – and...
January 2011
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Design studentships in Typography
We are looking for exceptional candidates for full-time postgraduate study in the Department of Typography at Reading. The University will award one AHRC-funded studentship for our practice-based MA programmes: Book Design, Information Design or Typeface Design, with entry in October 2011.
We will also be putting candidates forward for doctoral and MA studentships funded by the University of...
November 2010
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WatchThe noise might be captured, but the smell is not. Neither is the excitement of seeing the superb engineering of a Monotype caster at work.
July 2010
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Jo De Baerdemaeker're report on Mahendra Patel's... →
June 2010
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