Intervention: Type specimens from the Western canon

I also provided printouts of seminal typefaces from the Western canon (relating to my overview lecture at the beginning of the session. Students were asked to choose one of these to analyse and use as a reference / influence along with their identity image.

The idea here was to consider how they might use ‘knowledge’ from the Western design canon: visual characteristics, proportion etc.

The pdf document of these type specimens can be found here.

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