The 11th edition of the Typography Meeting (@encontrodetipografia) took place at Caldas da Rainha, from November 25 to 27. The program included very expressive participation from the FBAUP’s students (mainly the MDGPE’s students) and a Ph.D. researcher. In total, we conducted two workshops, presented three papers, and exhibited four posters. As usual, the conference started… Continue reading FBAUP @ 11ET
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Typographic Identities (Ph.D. presentation)
Today, Thursday, September 9 a UFSC/FBAUP Ph.D. examination will take place online, at 1:30 pm. This is a very interesting a relevant research to the Type Design course of the MDGPE master program mainly because the candidate —the researcher and soon to be professor Eduardo Napoleão— has not only actively participated in our type design… Continue reading Typographic Identities (Ph.D. presentation)
Euro
Wouldn’t it be great if a Type Designer worked at the European Union? Some thirty draft designs for a euro currency symbol were drawn up internally by the European Commission (…) Microsoft and other vendors have chosen to make glyphs for the symbol to be font and style specific (…) to make the euro symbol… Continue reading Euro
Nova Egmont
Nova Egmont is a modern serif font revival designed by Francisca Lopes, Miguel Moreira, and Pedro Correia in 2020, based on the original Egmont typeface designed Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos in 1930. The biggest challenge of this exercise was to perform a significant “customization” of the font without distorting the original reference. Initially, manual and… Continue reading Nova Egmont
GT Academy: Type Design Tutorials
The Grilli Type Foundry has been publishing a series of small bite-sized tutorials on type design: the GT Academy. Currently, it features 17 “issues” published ranging from drawing basics to advanced optical compensations. It starts in a slightly different approach from ours: with the letter “a”. But then, the method is almost the same. Starting… Continue reading GT Academy: Type Design Tutorials
Aferis
The Aferis variable font consists of a multi-weight serif typeface, whose name is a playful anagram from “Serif”. It presents an Experimental axis in defiance of the “Type for text” briefing. Designed by Ana Margarida Calçada, David Rocha and Miguel Machado in 2020. The first three masters in the weight axis are intended for small… Continue reading Aferis
Invisible shapes
Although this is not a work produced directly in this course, it was a master dissertation research by Carolina Ferreira that started and was supervised by the previous professor of this course, the Type Designer Dino dos Santos. And by my current colleague, professor Diniz Cayolla. As I’ve had the opportunity to do before, this… Continue reading Invisible shapes
Maenad
Maenad was one of the typeface projects developed during the 2020 semester. Designed and developed as a variable font by Ana Silva, Eva Halfers, and Teresa Zagalo. ”Maenad” is a revival serif transitional text typeface based on Windsor and Americana typefaces. The concept was bringing the display feeling of the Windsor within the Americana. So… Continue reading Maenad
SLOType Workshop 2021
This week, in the type design course, we will have once again two invited guests co-lecturing the speculative type design workshop “SLOType”. This workshop is part of on-going research on creativity and type design education that has started in 2018 with Ana Catarina Silva (IPCD-ESD / ID+) and Julien Priez (@booypaper). In 2020 Eduardo Napoleão… Continue reading SLOType Workshop 2021
Induction to writing and calligraphy
Last week we have initiated the semester. After an initial discussion on basic terms, we’ll finish this theoretical introduction with some calligraphy practice geared towards the foundational hand. During this semester, I’ll be updating the syllabus on this website with a sample of the materials and brief conceptual/theoretical notes from the classes’ slide decks. Make… Continue reading Induction to writing and calligraphy