Course - Typeface Design - IMT3012
Typeface Design
About
About the course
Course content
Typeface design is a practical design project where the student is introduced to fundamental techniques and skills related to the design of typefaces. The course contains assignments in the craft of type design, tools, composition and form, and a typeface design project with formative-iterative supervison.
Learning outcome
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 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 typface designer Veronika Burian (from Type Together).
Further on evaluation
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 (by a group of internal and external examiners) at the end of the third and final year (grades AF).
If failed, the course must be taken anew.
Specific conditions
Admission to a programme of study is required:
Graphic Design (BMED)
Required previous knowledge
-IMT1101 Typography I
-IMT1010 Typography II
-IMT2011 Typography III
-IMT2312 History of Typography
-IMT2013 Calligraphy
Course materials
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: OReilly.
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). Printers type in the twentieth century: manufacturing and design methods. London: The British Library.
Credit reductions
| Course code | Reduction | From |
|---|---|---|
| IDG2013 | 5 sp |
Subject areas
- Design Methodology