Category: Documents
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.
Intervention: week 1 slides
At the start of the session, I introduced the project and gave a short lecture on The Western canon of typeface design, plotting the development of typefaces from Gutenberg to the present day. This gave the students a historical overview of the subject (from a Western perspective).
Week 1 slides can be found here.
Intervention: brief
In GCD Practices we refer to briefs as ‘tasks’. The task sheet for my intervention can be found here.
Participant Information Sheet & Participant consent form
Before I begin the intervention I have prepared a participant information sheet and Participant consent form and handed these out to students to sign and give approval to participate in my research intervention.
These documents can be found here: