Course - Calligraphy and Font Design - IDG2013
Calligraphy and Font Design
New from the academic year 2020/2021
About
About the course
Course content
The students are introduced to the fundamental principles, techniques and skills of calligraphy. The course contains excercises and a project. Formative-iterative supervision.
Learning outcome
The student will develop basic knowledge and skills in calligraphy and the tools involved.
The student will develop further knowledge of letterforms and the connection between analog and digital tools, form and expression, and the connection between use context and letterform. The student will during the course draw a calligraphic alphabet and design a typeface with a full Norwegian alphabet within a given genre of typefaces and for a specified purpose.
Learning methods and activities
Lectures and individual project, with supervision (formative-iterative evaluation). Sketches, the work process, and the end result must be documented. The course is run by a professional calligrapher and typeface designer.
Further on evaluation
If fail, the course must be taken anew.
Summative assessment at the end of the semester: Passed / failed. The project(s) may then be included in a portfolio for final summative graded assessment (with internal and external examiners) at the end of the third and final year (grades AF).
Specific conditions
Admission to a programme of study is required:
Graphic Design (BMED)
Required previous knowledge
The course is limited to students in the program Bachelor in Graphic Design
-IDG1101 Typography I
-IDG1010 Typography II
-IDG2312 History of Typography
Course materials
Jenssen, Helene (2016). Kompendium: kalligrafi & skrift. Oslo.
Henestrosa, Cristóbal, Laura Meseguer, og José Scaglione. (2017). How to create typefaces: from sketch to screen. Madrid: Tipo e.
SUPPORTIVE LITERATURE:
Ahrens, Tim, og Shoko Mugikura (2014). Size-specific adjustments to type designs. München: Just Another Foundry.
Beier, Sofie (2017). Type tricks: your personal guide to type design. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers.
Beier, Sofie (2012). Reading letters: designing for legibility. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers.
Character design standards [www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/fdsspec/ overview.aspx].
Cheng, Karen (2006). Designing type. Yale University Press.
FontLab users’ manual for Macintosh [www.fontlab.com].
Haralambous, Yannis (2007). Fonts & encodings. Sebastopol: O’Reilly.
Noordzij, Gerrit (2005). The stroke: theory of writing. London: Hyphen Press.
Rask, Trine (2007). Skriftdesign: grundprincipper og arbejdsproces. København: Grafisk Litteratur.
Rask, Trine (2009). Skriftdesign: øvelser på papiret. København: Grafisk Litteratur.
Smeijers, Fred (2011). Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century – designing typefaces now. 2nd ed. London: Hyphen Press.
Southall, Richard (2005). Printer’s type in the twentieth century: manufacturing and design methods. London: The British Library.
Unger, Gerard (2018): Theory of Type Design. Rotterdam: Nai10.
Credit reductions
| Course code | Reduction | From |
|---|---|---|
| IMT2013 | 5 sp | |
| IMT3012 | 5 sp |
Subject areas
- Design Methodology