This week I am starting my intervention which takes the form of a curricula change to a type design project that I ran last year.
I will be teaching a five-week block on Typeface design. The main change I am making is to ask the students to start by finding an image that represents an aspect of their identity that they are comfortable using as a starting point or influence for their typeface design. We will also look at the Western typeface design canon.
During weeks 2–4 of the teaching block I have invited in leading International type design studio Dalton Maag to teach specialist design skills, techniques, theory and industry standard software.
The students will be designing their own typefaces based on an apsect of their identity, a typeface selected from the Western canon, and using new technical and theoretical knowledge from Industry professionals (Knowledge Exchange).