During the fourth week students continued to refine and develop their designs, simultaneously considering:
– Knowledge Exchange (how they were using new technical and theoretical knowledge)
– Influence from the Western canon
– Aspects of their source of identity
It was interesting to observe how students were managing this and talking with them helped me to understand their design process and their reflections on diversity and decolonialism.
We were again joined by Eleni who continued to talk through more advanced aspects of type design and some of Dalton Maag’s projects. She also talked about the bias towards latin script typefaces (presumably fueled by dominance of English-speaking countries, commerce, development of design industry in Europe, etc). What this leads to is a lack of diversity in the availability and sophistication of non-latin typefaces. This fed nicely in to the project about diversity and decolonisation.