Workshop on Type Wednesday 9thOctober 2013 Morning session: A Drawing driven exercise discussing face and font design and purpose – with a historical perspective. The object is to ultimately create 3D type to be photographed to be mediated for your portfolio usage. Afternoon session: The parts in glyph construction. This workshop is based on form being determined by function. The challenge is to reﬂect on an ideal construction. In other words – Searching for a typographic Utopia and the question: What constitutes and ideal construction methodology for constructing type forms? End of day briefing: There will be three distinct tasks: 1. Animation – (Comittment to a process.) 2. Portrature – (Quantity & Quality.) 3. Design a quick type face – (Process Matrix.) ABC onxhp Serif & Sanserif ABC onxhp Base Line Base Line Base Line Base Line X-height X-height Descender Descender Ascender Ascender Cap Height Cap Height THE ROMAN ALPHABET

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UCA Workshop Wednesday 9th Oct 2013 in Room 201 starting at 10:30am

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Workshop on TypeWednesday 9thOctober 2013

Morning session:A Drawing driven exercise discussing face and font design and purpose – with a historical perspective. The object is to ultimately create 3D type to be photographed to be mediated for your portfolio usage.

Afternoon session:The parts in glyph construction. This workshop is based on form being determined by function.

The challenge is to reflect on an ideal construction.

In other words – Searching for a typographic Utopia and the question: What constitutes and ideal construction methodology for constructing type forms?

End of day briefing:There will be three distinct tasks:

1. Animation – (Comittment to a process.)2. Portrature – (Quantity & Quality.)3. Design a quick type face – (Process Matrix.)

ABConxhpSerif & Sanserif

ABC onxhp

Base Line

X-height

Descender

Ascender

Cap Height

THE ROM AN ALPHABET