Design student typographic survival kit
Here is some advice for students starting a new term on how fonts can help your studies, from Sarah Hyndman’s book Why Fonts Matter.
Tag Archives: learn about type
What’s Your Type? Learn about typography at the London Design Festival
What’s Your Type?
Learn how to choose fonts with confidence in an intensive and fun one-hour workshop. Take part in experiments as you create your own set of tasting notes based on latest research results. Become part of the discovery process as we prove that a typeface can transform the meaning of your words—that it’s not just what you say it’s the way that you say it. Continue reading
Learn about fonts: register your interest for a new series of e-learners
Would you like to learn about type/fonts the Type Tasting way?
The Type Tasting approach takes the viewpoint of the type consumer and explores fonts through experiences and observations from everyday life. The e-learners will feature questions and challenges throughout and at the end there will be a short test which you can submit to have marked. Those who pass will receive a certificate and a virtual button to wear on their website or Facebook page with pride. These are aimed at curious font consumers, no prior typography experience is needed.
Titles in this series of e-learners are planned for later in the year. Each will guide you through learning about an area of type and you can vote for the first titles to be published. Choose which ones you would like when you register your interest*, and the most popular will be the first launched:
Sensory type: From a DIY Type Tasting.
History of type: Told through 10 record covers.
Type classification: From a Dalston Type Safari.
Type & perception: From font personality profiling.
Click here to register your interest in Type Tasting e-learners.
*There is no obligation to buy when you register your interest.
Gallery: Dalston Type Safari
Gallery: Dalston Type Safari
Compositions from the most recent Dalston Type Safari, can you name the tune in the piece above by Rob Self-Pierson? The designs below are by Alice Stevens and Maria Cox.
